The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Nilah vs. Samira counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Samira..
Nilah often has a similar longest kill spree as their matchup does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Samira. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when playing against Samira, with a 54.6% win rate. Therefore, Nilah makes a great counter to Samira.
While Nilah does have a much higher winrate compared to Samira, when facing one another, Nilah also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more complex champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Nilah into Samiraas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nilah also has some amount of utility and CC, 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Samira matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nilah is a great counter for Samira. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nilah against Samira.
To truly master Nilah in order to counter Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah often racks up a similar amount of CS as Samira. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nilah versus Samira build include Angelo custode, Lame rapide Navori, and Il Collezionista. When Nilah used at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs Samira than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average winrate of 54.6% when playing against Samira with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Samira as Nilah, you should equip the Conquistatore, Trionfo, Leggenda: Stirpe, L'ultima sfida, Impatto improvviso, and Cacciatore di tesori runes from the Precisione and Dominazione rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nilah vs Samira fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Samira as Nilah are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.