Brand vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Brand
based on 10,300 Brand vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Samira
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Brand vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Brand vs. Samira counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Samira. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Brand normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Samira. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Samira
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Who is Better, Brand or Samira?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Samira, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter to Samira.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Samira, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Samira.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Samira matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is an above average counter to Samira. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand often gets less CS as Samira. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Brand versus Samira build consist of Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Samira than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 52.6% battling Samira with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Samira as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Brand vs Samira counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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