Samira
Hardest matchups for Samira in Bot (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Veigar, 
Vel'Koz, 
Jinx. Easiest: 
Ezreal, 
Mel, 
Aphelios.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into SamiraOn the pro tier list
Samira on patch 16.22
- Bot50.2%#29 of 51B8,261 games
- steady since 16.21
Samira’s main role on patch 16.22 is Bot: a 50.2% win rate across 8,261 Emerald games, #29 of 51 Bot champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 3.2% of games. Since patch 16.21, Samira Bot has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 69,045 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot99% of its games | B | 49.9%49.9% raw ±0.6 | 25,978 | 3.6%3.9% banned | 51.3%45.3% first time |
| Mid1% of its games | too few games | 48.1%39.3% raw ±6.8 | 206 | 0.0%3.9% banned | 50.0%46.9% first time |
| Top0% of its games | too few games | 48.2%27.9% raw ±10.6 | 86 | 0.0%3.9% banned | 50.6%46.6% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.9%45.0% raw ±21.9 | 20 | 0.0%3.9% banned | 51.3% |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 49.6%23.1% raw ±27.2 | 13 | 0.0%3.9% banned | 51.3%47.2% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Samira’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Samira, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Samira
Lane leads and team bans
What Samira’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Samira than the other team does in the same games (243,734 games). The other team banned before Samira was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Samira was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Samira is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Crit
51.8%23,710 games - Lethality
49.7%2,499 games - AD bruiser
51.8%8 games - On-hit
51.6%2 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Samira does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
27,899 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Barrier50.0% · 21,701 games
ConquerorPrecision + Domination · 49.9%
Triumph · Legend: Bloodline · Last Stand · Sudden Impact · Treasure HunterShards: Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Blade + Health Potion · 51.4%
Key items: The Collector → Infinity Edge · 52.2%
Boots: Gluttonous Greaves · 53.4%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Barrier50.0%21,701 games · 78% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Exhaust + Flash50.4%3,550 games · 13% pick rate · same players: −2.1 pts vs the usual
Cleanse + Flash49.0%2,370 games · 8.5% pick rate · same players: −3.6 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
- Conqueror + Domination49.9%19,603 games · 70% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Conqueror + Inspiration52.6%3,429 games · 12% pick rate · same players: −0.7 pts vs the usual
Conqueror + Resolve48.6%4,160 games · 15% pick rate · same players: −1.2 pts vs the usual
Minor runes with Conqueror
- Triumph50.0%99% take it
- Legend: Bloodline50.0%99% take it
- Last Stand50.0%89% take it
Cut Down50.1%6.2% take it
Coup de Grace49.7%5.0% take it
- Treasure Hunter49.9%100% take it
- Sudden Impact50.2%24% take it
Taste of Blood49.8%76% take it
- Attack Speed49.9%94% take it
- Adaptive Force51.2%6.2% take it
- Adaptive Force50.0%99% take it
- Health50.7%21% take it
- Health Scaling49.7%76% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist49.8%2.9% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Samira’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Samira’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Samira does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Samira wins 46.6%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.4%. That gap ranks it 62 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 150K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Samira in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot | 50.0%3W 3L | 0%0% in any lane | 100% counter | −481 gold | — |
How much knowing Samira pays
Players on their Mastery band win 5.8 points more on Samira than first-timers do: #62 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Samira players win 52.4%: #87 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 55.2% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
SamiraDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Samira ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Smolder, Lucian, Sivir.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.