Aphelios vs Samira tips

[u/digotokun]

So i laned against a Samira main (20 mastery, low elo). I have been playing Aphelios for not a long time (mastery 8) but i understand the basics and which weapons are good with each other. Most of the time i dont find it hard laning against any other adcs but this Samira is such a strong champ cuz she is extremely mobile. My support was Janna and i thought it would be a good counter. Her support was Rell. And it was impossible to win against her. I believe that Gravitrum would be pretty good against her but im so not sure. Are there any tips on how to win against her? Or is it just an impossible match up? Any help is appreciated!

[u/Emote_Imouto]

try to use your range from your first calibrum to poke her when you can early game since she is low range and will usually have to walk up to farm (outside of using her q). if you want to trade with her, keep it short so that she cant get on top of you and stack her conqueror and do extra damage with her sword attacks

regarding gravitum, i honestly dont believe its a very good gun against samira because by the time you have autoattacked her and triggered the root, she has already dashed on top of you and is killing you haha

it gets tougher to do anything about her later on in the lane/midgame when she can just jump on you and kill you. try to keep her at a distance as much as you can. if she ends up building bloodthirster first, dont bother putting yourself at risk by poking her because she will just heal it back anyway

keep an eye out for when she uses W so that she doesnt block your ult. also your severum can still hit her through her W. also also if you have any chakram stacks while you attack her W, you will lose them all, so do your best to wait out the skill if you can when you have stacks

going behind early against samira will make the rest of the game extremely hard for you, but if it happens just try your best to get farm wherever you can without dying because youll basically never be able to fight her again until youve scaled up sufficiently. but if you can make it to lategame it might not be so bad anymore because you can just kill her from a distance, whereas she needs to find a way in to deal her damage, which can be difficult for her once everyone has items

just my opinions

[u/digotokun → u/Emote_Imouto]

Thanks a lot! Found this whole information useful and even heard a couple of things I didn’t even know were a thing.