Samira
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Samira is an explosive, combo-oriented champion who excels at executing rapid, early-game victories. While her baseline kit is exceptionally strong and highly praised for its aggressive playstyle, players disagree about her 6-star upgrade. Some consider it a powerful enabler for massive one-turn kills, while others find it clunky and less impactful than other Noxian upgrades.
Explosive Plunder Combo
Reduces Samira's cost and scales her stats rapidly, enabling her to dominate the board early.
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 upon summon to reliably activate Plunder for other cards and count toward her level-up condition.
Strategy
This build provides the ultimate fuel for Samira's combo engine. Packed Powder provides rapid stat scaling and cost reduction if Plunder is activated prior to her deployment.
Once on the board, Dreadway Chase Gun generates Warning Shots to reliably trigger Plunder for other effects and fuel her level-up condition. Spellweaver's Symphony then generates 0-cost spells every time the attack token is gained, providing the necessary spell volume to continuously trigger her rally loop and overwhelm the opponent.
Brilliant Fortune Burst
Zoe Specialized
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.
Refills spell mana upon leveling up, facilitating her spell-heavy combo turns and allowing her to extend her attack chains.
Strategy
Specifically tailored for the 10-star Zoe adventure, this build focuses on maximizing burst damage and infinite card-play loops to achieve First Turn Kills. Searing Brilliance significantly enhances her signature spells, turning Stylish Shot into a massive damage tool.
Chosen by the Stars provides rapid stat scaling via Augment and Fated, while Hidden Tome ensures spell mana is constantly refilled to sustain the combo chain against Zoe's disruptive removal.
Accessible Rally Chain
Grants a crucial rally upon leveling up, extending her combo turn and maintaining offensive pressure.
Generates fleeting copies of Samira, ensuring a constant stream of spells to fuel her rally mechanics.- Provides guaranteed 0-cost Warning Shots upon summon to reliably activate Plunder and count toward her level-up condition.
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, while Dreadway Chase Gun provides Warning Shots for easy Plunder activation after she is deployed.
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.
Highly effective for drawing and discounting critical combo pieces like Stylish Shot, provided 1-cost followers are aggressively cut from the deck.
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.
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.
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
Her 3-star power is incredibly strong because the cost reduction carries over to the next round, allowing players to store mana discounts for explosive turns.
Fast Deal
Round Start: Draw 1 and give it Fleeting. When you discard a card, shuffle a copy of it into your deck.Review
The round start card draw is vital for maintaining hand size and preventing her from running out of resources during long 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 her 6-star upgrade. Some consider its ability to grant +4/+0 when gaining the attack token a powerful enabler for massive one-turn kills. While others find it underwhelming, noting that the buff is often wasted on the first round if no units are developed.
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.
- Support Champion Relics
Drafting support champions equipped with the Lost Chapter relic creates incredibly powerful synergies, providing the spell mana needed to sustain her combos.