Samira
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Excellent (8.5/10)
Low Investment
Rare Relics OK
Samira is a highly aggressive, combo-oriented champion who excels at executing rapid, early-game victories. While her baseline kit is exceptionally strong, her maximum constellation upgrades offer diminishing returns.
Explosive Plunder Combo
Reduces Samira's cost and scales her stats rapidly, enabling her to be deployed early and dominate the board.
Generates 0-cost spells whenever the attack token is gained, providing the necessary spell volume to fuel her continuous rally loop.
Provides guaranteed 0-cost Warning Shots to reliably activate Plunder on turn 1, enabling Packed Powder and her star powers.
Strategy
This is the definitive optimal build for Samira. The goal is to use the Warning Shots from Dreadway Chase Gun to trigger Plunder immediately, allowing you to play a discounted Samira. From there, Spellweaver's Symphony provides the cheap spells required to consistently trigger her level-up and subsequent rally effects, often resulting in a victory on the first or second turn.
Brilliant Fortune Burst
Enhances her signature spells, turning cards like Stylish Shot into massive burst damage tools.
Grants Augment and Fated, allowing Samira's stats to scale rapidly as she cycles through her cheap spells.
Draws key combo pieces and reduces their cost to 0, accelerating her aggressive game plan.
Strategy
This build focuses on maximizing the damage output of Samira's spells. By utilizing Found Fortune, you can consistently draw and discount critical cards. When combined with the stat scaling from Chosen by the Stars and the spell enhancements from Searing Brilliance, Samira can easily overwhelm opponents with a barrage of enhanced attacks and spells.
Accessible Rally Chain
Grants a crucial rally upon leveling up, extending her combo turn and maintaining offensive pressure.- Ensures consistent Plunder activation and provides cheap spells to count toward her level-up condition.
Generates fleeting copies of Samira, ensuring a constant stream of spells to fuel her rally mechanics.
Strategy
This build utilizes only rare relics while maintaining Samira's core identity. Because Samira's base design does not grant an immediate rally upon leveling up, Crownguard Inheritance is essential for maintaining momentum. The Grand General's Counterplan ensures you never run out of cards to play, allowing you to consistently hit the threshold required for her repeatable rallies.
Other Relic Options
Generates a 0-cost spell every round, which perfectly aligns with her need to play multiple cards to trigger her rally effect.
Provides a strong alternative win condition by shuffling discounted champions into the deck, which is highly effective for longer encounters where her primary combo might stall.
Refills spell mana upon leveling up, facilitating her spell-heavy combo turns and allowing her to extend her attack chains.
Players disagree about Chemtech Duplicator on Samira. Some consider it a powerful tool for infinite rallies against high-health enemies, while others find it too slow for her aggressive game plan since she rarely wants to reach 6 mana.
Constellation
Samira is exceptionally powerful at lower star levels, possessing immense flexibility in drafting. Her early constellation nodes provide significant power spikes, but her final upgrades offer diminishing returns compared to other Noxian champions.
Collect Your Bounty
The first time you damage the enemy Nexus each round, the next card you play costs 1 less.
Style On 'Em
+1 Starting Mana. When you play your third card each round, grant allies +1|+1.
Collect Your Bounty II
The first time you damage the enemy Nexus each round, the next card you play costs 3 less.Review
This upgrade is highly impactful. The cost reduction applied after damaging the enemy Nexus carries over to subsequent rounds, allowing for massive tempo swings and early champion deployment.
Fast Deal
Round Start: Draw 1 and give it Fleeting. When you discard a card, shuffle a copy of it into your deck.Review
Provides crucial card draw at the start of the round. This directly addresses Samira's primary weakness of depleting her hand quickly during extended combo chains.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.
Beautiful And Brutal
When you gain the attack token, give allies +4|+0 this round.Review
Players disagree about Samira's 6-star upgrade. Some consider it a powerful enabler for advanced rally chains, while others view it as an inefficient mechanic that often wastes its buff on the first round if the player starts with the attack token.
Gameplay Tips
- Drafting Cheap Support
Prioritize low-cost units and spells during drafts. Samira's game plan revolves around playing multiple cards in a single round to trigger her rally effect, making expensive cards a liability to her combo potential.
- Optimizing Found Fortune
If utilizing the Found Fortune relic, aggressively cut 1-cost followers from the deck at healer nodes. This guarantees the relic will draw and discount critical combo spells like Stylish Shot instead of low-impact units.
- Storing Cost Reductions
The cost reduction generated by her 3-star power carries over between rounds. You do not need to spend the mana discount immediately, allowing you to strategically store it to set up explosive, multi-card turns later in the game.
- Navigating Tough Nexus Encounters
Samira struggles significantly against adventures with the "Tough Nexus" modifier. This modifier negates the 1-damage pings from Warning Shots and Stylish Shots, preventing her Plunder enablers from activating and stalling her entire game plan.