Samira Dragon Lane Wild Rift overview and best build snapshot
Best Build
Quick snapshot of the default setup for this guide.
Boots
Items
Summoner Spells
Spell 1
Flash
Spell 2
Barrier
How to play
Follow your support into a fight Wait for their stun or knockup before moving into close range.
Mix attacks and different abilities Build your style until your ultimate becomes available.
Wait for dangerous stuns before using your ultimate Your 2nd ability destroys nearby enemy projectiles. Use it against dangerous shots, then cast your ultimate after enemies have used the stuns that could interrupt it.
Guide author
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Strengths
- Style resets and Inferno Trigger (Ult) give her strong cleanup after the enemy's main control spells are spent.
- Blade whirl (2nd) deletes projectiles, blocking key poke and even ultimates mid-flight.
- Great with engage supports: allied crowd control extends her combo and feeds her style meter.
Weaknesses
- Style-dependent: without her meter she is just a short-ranged carry with no all-in.
- Hard crowd control ends her whole combo.
- Her dive range makes her easy to focus, and she threatens nothing when behind on gold.
Samira Dragon Lane Wild Rift best build, items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order
ITEM BUILD
Best Wild Rift build for Samira Dragon Lane, including items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order.
STARTING ITEM
Simple early attack damage. Her blade hits already do bonus damage based on missing health at close range.
BOOTS
The omnivamp keeps her healthy at the melee range her style grade depends on reaching.
CORE BUILD
Executes low health targets. Her passive already hits harder against missing health, so the two pay on the same enemies.
Build second after The Collector to strengthen Samira's critical strikes. Inferno Trigger (Ult) fires shots that can crit, so this increases the damage of the ultimate window she builds Style to reach.
Build third so Armor Penetration keeps Samira's attacks and Inferno Trigger (Ult) threatening against the frontline. Giant Slayer adds damage against bonus Health; replace it with Mortal Reminder when healing is the bigger problem.
Build fourth for a Lifeline shield that helps Samira survive inside the fight long enough to finish her combo and channel Inferno Trigger (Ult). Its AD and crit support her damage while the shield covers the return burst.
The final item adds high Attack Damage and Lifesteal to help Samira sustain while fighting at close range and building Style. Prepare its overheal shield before committing to the next all-in.
SITUATIONAL ITEMS
A dash that does not require an enemy target, giving her an exit her own kit only offers if someone is standing there.
Build this against armor stackers or enemies who heal through her ultimate. Choose it over Lord Dominik's Regard when enemy healing is the bigger problem, since Grievous Wounds stops targets from recovering Samira's damage.
Replace Immortal Shieldbow against heavy magic burst. Magic Resistance and its magic-damage shield help Samira survive the spells aimed at her when she commits to melee range.
Build this when one stun catches her mid-ultimate, which is the only thing that stops the channel.
Replace Immortal Shieldbow when a revive is more useful than surviving the first burst. Samira's dash resets can carry her deep into a fight, so use the second life where teammates can protect her return.
RUNES
KEYSTONE
Her whole pattern is an extended close-range fight, so she stacks fast and the healing pays for the range she fights at.
PRIMARY
Bonus damage on attacks sharpens the aggressive trades her style depends on.
Her passive already does more against missing health, so bonus damage to low targets stacks on the same window.
Its omnivamp heals Samira from the close-range blade hits and multi-target ultimate she uses after diving in, helping her survive long enough to finish the Style payoff.
SECONDARY
Her dash gives her a reliable trigger for the bonus true damage as she enters a fight.
SITUATIONAL RUNES
Take this over Sudden Impact when the lane punishes her forward style harder than she can trade back.
SUMMONER SPELLS
MAIN SPELLS
Flash
Must take. She dashes through targets to build her style rating, so Flash is the escape she keeps for after the combo.
Barrier
Her ultimate only pays off if she is alive at full stacks in the middle of the enemy team. This is what carries her through the first rotation aimed at her.
SKILL ORDER
Skill Priority Order
- 11st Ability
Q - 23rd Ability
E - 32nd Ability
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Samira Dragon Lane Wild Rift matchups and counters
Wild Rift matchup guide for Samira Dragon Lane, covering favorable lanes and difficult counters to prepare for in ranked, plus the duo partners that pair best with this pick.
Good Matchups
These champions are favorable matchups for this pick in Wild Rift. You have advantages against them and can play more aggressively.
Varus
Varus is immobile artillery, and your whirl can erase his root mid-flight, so once you dive him he has no way to keep the fight at range.
Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa wants to trade at range and dash out, but your dash reaches her first, your whirl blocks her missiles on the way in, and up close your combo out-damages her weak early game.
Jhin
Jhin has no escape and reloads after four shots, so your dive catches him helpless, and your whirl spins away the root he needs to peel you off.
Samira Counters
These champions counter this pick in Wild Rift and can be difficult matchups. Learn how to play against them or consider banning them.
Draven
Draven's axes out-trade your style-building phase, and at even gold his early all-in beats yours. Your teamfight cleanup out-scales his lane pressure if the game stays close.
Miss Fortune
Her bounce poke chips you on the way in, her ultimate punishes the clustered brawls your kit wants, and she out-trades you until items even things out.
Ashe
Every auto Ashe lands slows you, so the dash-and-brawl pattern you need gets kited apart before you reach her. Your whirl blocks her Volley (2nd) but does not remove the slow applied by her basic attacks.
Synergies
The Dragon lane is a 2v2, so your support matters as much as the matchup. These supports bring out the best in this pick: duo with one of them or draft toward the pairing.
Rell
Every knockup she lands extends through your passive launcher, chaining CC while you build style. Her engage starts the exact melee chaos your kit feasts on.
Alistar
Headbutt (2nd) into Pulverize (1st) keeps enemies airborne for your passive to extend, and his dive tanks the tower while you stack style to S rank in the chaos.
Nautilus
Chain CC from hook to ult holds enemies inside your Flair (1st) range, and his engage commits fights hard enough that Inferno Trigger (Ult) hits everything at once.
Samira Dragon Lane Wild Rift game strategy and teamfighting guide
Wild Rift game strategy for Samira Dragon Lane, from early lane control through mid and late game map play to final teamfights.