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Recommended Items
Runes: Default
+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health
Spells:
Cleanse
Flash
Items
Ability Order Default
Daredevil Impulse (PASSIVE)
Samira Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Nilah
One of the hardest counters for Samira, because your champ has no poke she gets a free lane (bonus XP for her and her support from passive), there is nothing to block with your Blade Whirl, her Jubilant Veil can deny you getting Style-grades (she is immune to the one second S-tier combo), if she saves her ult she can just interrupt yours.
Alistar
Excellent support for Samira, just chill level 1 since you both are useless at that point. If he tries to knockback an enemy towards you with his W do NOT instantly autoattack them because that will cancel the knockback and instead knocks the target up for 0,5 seconds with your passive.
Alistar
Excellent support for Samira, just chill level 1 since you both are useless at that point. If he tries to knockback an enemy towards you with his W do NOT instantly autoattack them because that will cancel the knockback and instead knocks the target up for 0,5 seconds with your passive.
Champion Build Guide
Peak Rank: Grandmaster 825 LP EUW
Main Champs:
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Hello! I'm Sheriff , a Grandmaster
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Pros
- Very fun to play
- Excellent snowballing
- Great in teamfights
- Easy to 1v9 games when ahead
- Good scaling
Cons
- Countered by CC
- Too coinflip, in most games you will either drop 15 kills or 15 deaths
- Gets easily outranged/outpoked by most ranged champs in the botlane
- Very reliant on support
- Useless when weaksided
- Really low base damage without items
I already rated the matchups and synergies above but I would just like to say a few general words about them. When playing
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Hover over the icon to see the default description.
I assume that you already have the basic understanding of what her abilities do so instead I will just give some extra detailed information about them.
The passive dash range towards CC'd enemies scales from level (lvl 1/4/8/12/16). This means that on earlier levels you have to be close to your support so you don't miss out on an opportunity to engage.
The bonus movespeed is not much but at higher Style-grades (B+) it can allow you to chase down opponents who don't have any bonus movespeed on them. This bonus also scales from level (lvl 1/6/11/16).
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This is just your basic trading/poking/farming ability. The base damage on it is absolutely miserable for the first couple ranks but it scales really well. One small thing to note is that your autoattack comes out faster after using
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This is what people call "
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Not rocket science, just a basic dash that resets with takedowns (assuming you damaged them within the last 3 seconds). Always use
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This is pretty much the whole point of the champion: massive AOE damage. However you need to have vision on an enemy to activate it, for example you cannot ult
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In theory
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Basic Auto-Q-Auto Trade
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Very simple to use in quick trades, gives you 3 Style-grades (halfway to S-tier).
Short Trade Into All-In
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Not the fastest combo but it's pretty easy to start from. Remember that you only have to tap
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Jumpscare Combo (B+)
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This combo includes a mindgame: you pretend that you have no intentions of going in and you are just running away. Once you have gathered enough Style you start your
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Jumpscare Combo (C)
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Same idea but a bit slower since you are going in with one less Style-grade than before so you need that extra autoattack before you can ult.
the One Second S-tier Combo
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Dives with the one second S-tier combo should look like this:
Check the very top of the guide for some example rune pages (6 in total) and their notes for explanations!
Keystone
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Doesn't really need a long explanation,
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Primary Tree: Precision
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Slot 1:
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I take this 99% of the time, it fits the "daredevil" playstyle perfectly, allows you to make risky (and fun) outplays.
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If the enemy team is really tanky (3+ tanks) you might need some extra mana in fights (tankier enemies = longer fights = more mana used).
Slot 2:
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Honestly, this rune isn't even that good because it's been nerfed multiple times in the past but it's still the best Legend-rune for
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If you feel like you want some extra earlygame power, this rune replaces the 10% attack speed shard and allows you to take double adaptive shards (+5.4 AD). Only downside is that you will feel the lack of
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Slot 3:
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Just like
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Decent rune if your team is full of enchanters (you won't be spending that much time on low HP for
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Just like
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Secondary Tree Option 1: Domination
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Slot 1:
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Offers some solid burst damage for aggressive all-ins. Personally I liked the old version more when it gave you lethality and after the rework I use it a bit less.
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Personally I almost never use this but if you struggle with lane sustain it can be useful. My main concern is that it feels kinda useless after laning phase.
Slot 2:
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Extremely good rune when you're snowballing. If you manage to get those 10 takedowns in the earlygame having that 18 bonus AD feels really good.
Slot 3:
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Just like
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Secondary Tree Option 2: Resolve
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Slot 1:
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Slot 2:
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Very strong defensive scaling for free. Goes well with
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This used to be good against the
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Can help you in laning phase if enemy botlane has 2 long range poke champs (
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Slot 3:
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Strong defensive scaling for free. Goes well with
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Almost always take this when playing with enchanters, it makes their champions more useful and also increases your
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Very situational rune when enemy team has many CC champs. Personally I've only used it against
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Secondary Tree Option 3: Inspiration
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Slot 1:
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To me this is just a safer version of
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Slot 2:
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Having lower cooldowns on your summoner spells never hurts. Excellent when the enemy ADC also has this rune (you can match their
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Shards
Slot 1:
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Slot 2:
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Slot 3:
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Starting Items
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After patch 13.20 this is your default start against most lanes. The bonus HP from
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Against heavy poke lanes you will need some extra sustain. Gives you a faster
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First B / Early Buys
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Getting a
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Solid component that upgrades into
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Builds into both
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If you have some extra gold and the game is still in early laning phase (before 10min).
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Grab tier 1 boots if you don't have any damage items to buy or if you need to get back to the lane faster.
First Item
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Simply the most reliable first item for
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A very expensive but also a very strong item. Usually you would be buying
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Decent item that provides survivability. Just make sure to grab a
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Extremely fun snowballing item for fistfight games, just keep in mind that you shouldn't buy it on autopilot every single game.
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The stats are almost equal to
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Second Item
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If you rushed
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Default second item if you didn't buy it first.
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If the enemy team has many assassins you might need some safety. Excellent synergy with
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If you already have
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Extremely fun snowballing item for fistfight games, just keep in mind that you shouldn't buy it on autopilot every single game.
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You already have good waveclear so this item is not for that, it just gives you really strong damage in combos and all-ins. You can and you should use the active during your
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Third Item
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If your first 2 items were
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About 70% of the time this is your best third item. This is when people are starting to have enough bonus armor for it to have proper value.
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If the enemy team has many assassins you might need some safety. Excellent synergy with
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If the enemy team has a lot of poke and you really need some sustain this is very useful.
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A fine item to close out games against squishy teamcomps.
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Before the changes in patch 13.1B this item used to be completely useless on
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If the enemy team is AP heavy and you didn't buy
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This is still good as a third item, I wouldn't buy it any later than this.
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You already have good waveclear so this item is not for that, it just gives you really strong damage in combos and all-ins. You can and you should use the active during your
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Fourth Item
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If you still didn't buy any armor pen and the enemy team is getting tankier, now is the time to do so.
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Before the changes in patch 13.1B this item used to be completely useless on
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At this stage of the game
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Really good defensive item that also gives you some damage. Helps you carry teamfights, even better against AD heavy teams.
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If you are playing against uncleansable CC (
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Solid item for long teamfights where you just wanna stay alive to do damage.
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A fun off-meta armor pen option. Makes your
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Excellent armor pen choice against 2+ heavy armor champs, really fast to stack on
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A very cheap armor item against heavy AD comps.
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Last Item
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Really good defensive item against assassin-heavy comps. If you went
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This item is stronger the later you buy it, very strong at level 18.
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Really good defensive item that also gives you some damage. Helps you carry teamfights, even better against AD heavy teams.
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Extremely strong item against AP heavy comps.
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Another strong item against AP, even better if you have an enchanter. It also improves your
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Great choice against 2+ crit champs (
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Excellent armor pen choice against 2+ heavy armor champs, really fast to stack on
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If you are playing against uncleansable CC (
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A rare situational choice if the enemy team lacks poke that can easily break the spellshield and if they have some very important spells that can mess you up (great example:
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Extremely rare situational item when the enemy team is full of shields and no one on your team can build this item.
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Solid item for long teamfights where you just wanna stay alive to do damage.
Boots
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About 70% of the time these are your boots of choice, combine with
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Very simple; against AP heavy and CC heavy teamcomps.
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Good against many slowing champs such as
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Decent choice if you value your summoner spells, you are not buying these for the ability haste. If the enemy team has
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Really greedy, if you feel like you already won and don't need defensive boots. Personally I would just never go these if I care about winning.
Situational Buys
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50 MR for 900g, amazing buy against a fed AP assassin (or
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If you are playing against uncleansable CC (
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Solid item if enemy healing is becoming a problem, can be upgraded into
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Elixir
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Usually the default elixir for
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If you need some tenacity and survivability.
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Doesn't need to be explained,
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I take
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Good against assassins or burst champs. Remember that
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Decent if the enemy team has no burst or CC, however I would still personally almost always go
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Earlygame
First thing you need to understand is that what comes to base-stats
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Midgame
This is when you wanna start participating in teamfights and getting objectives with your team. Usually play for midlane since that's the closest to all other objectives. Ideally you should have 2 items right now and that is your first spike. If you are the strongest member on your team you have to be ready to teamfight because that is where your champion excels. If your team tries to take a fight without you, just try to ping them back as much as you can. Don't get poked too much so you're not forced to recall. Try to only recall for big items (let's say items that cost more than 1000g). Also make sure to ping that you are recalling for an item.
Lategame
Pretty much like midgame but with less recalling because the objectives and fights are becoming even more important. With many items you are extremely strong damage-wise but you are still playing ADC so 1 simple mistake and the game might be over for you. In teamfights you need to understand what abilities can mess you up and you have to wait for them before going in. Against some comps you could just slowly poke them with
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Q: Best champion to ban if you're onetricking Samira?
A: Honestly, unless there's some ADC/support that you just personally hate I would probably ban some tanky hard CC champion like
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Q: Is Samira mid/top viable?
A: Not really, she can work on those lanes in a good matchup but in midlane she cannot lane against most mages and in toplane she gets destroyed by most bruisers/tanks.
Q: Best Samira skin?
A: PsyOps with obsidian chroma.
Q: Should I sell boots for a sixth item?
A: I know that
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PsyOps: 8.5/10 - Overall just a really good skin, even better with the obsidian chroma!
Soul Fighter: 8.5/10 - This skin would easily be 10/10 if it was legendary. As cool as it looks it's just not worth 3250 RP. Still, if we ignore the price and just focus on the skin itself, it's definitely one of the best ones.
Default: 8/10 - If you don't like spending money on skins, don't worry; Samira has one of the best Default skins in the entire game!
High Noon: 7.5/10 - Only reason I'm putting this under Default is because her Default skin is already very close to High Noon and Default doesn't cost you any money. Overall the skin is very decent and has some cool chromas too.
Space Groove: 0.5/10 - Absolute disgrace of a skin, I have never even played with it and I never will (unless you pay me). Everything about it is just ugly and there is not a single bit that I like.
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