The stats provided here emphasize several important Yone versus Samira matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Samira..
Yone often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Samira. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yone usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Samira, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Yone makes an ok counter to Samira.
While Yone does have a higher winrate than Samira, when on opposite teams, Yone also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Yone into Samiraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yone has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yone vs Samira matchups, Samira is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Yone is a decent counter for Samira. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Yone against Samira.
If you would like to truly master Yone in order to counter Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone on average gets a similar amount of CS as Samira. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Yone versus Samira build include Ange gardien, Lame d'infini, and Arc-bouclier immortel. When Yone incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Samira than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Yone had an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Samira with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Samira as Yone, you should take the Tempo mortel, Triomphe, Légende : alacrité, Baroud d'honneur, Second souffle, and Surcroissance runes from the Précision and Volonté rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Yone vs Samira face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Samira as Yone are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.