The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Samira against Zeri matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between these two champs. Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zeri’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zeri..
Samira typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zeri. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually wins when facing off against Zeri, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a good counter to Zeri.
While Samira does have a higher win rate than Zeri, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Samira into Zeri.
Additionally, Samira also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zeri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Samira vs Zeri matchups, Samira is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Samira is a good counter for Zeri. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Samira against Zeri.
To truly master Samira to counter Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Zeri. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Samira versus Zeri build consist of Lame d'infini, Soif-de-sang, and Arc-bouclier immortel. When Samira bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Zeri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 52.1% when countering Zeri with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Zeri as Samira, Samira players should equip the Conquérant, Triomphe, Légende : sangsue, Baroud d'honneur, Plaque d'os, and Revitalisation runes from the Précision and Volonté rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Samira vs Zeri fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zeri as Samira are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.