The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Samira against Akshan counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akshan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Akshan..
Samira often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Akshan. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Samira usually wins when taking on Akshan, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Samira makes a great counter to Akshan.
While Samira does have a higher win rate than Akshan, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Samira into Akshan.
Moreover, Samira also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akshan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira vs Akshan matchups, Samira is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Samira is a great counter for Akshan. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Akshan.
To truly master Samira in order to counter Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Akshan. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Samira versus Akshan build include Anjo Guardião, Gume do Infinito, and A Coletora. When Samira bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Akshan than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when countering Akshan with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Akshan as Samira, you should take the Conquistador, Triunfo, Lenda: Linhagem, Até a Morte, Impacto Repentino, and Caçador de Tesouros runes from the Precisão and Dominação rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Samira vs Akshan clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.4% winrate overall.
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