How to win lane as Aphelios against Samira · 47.22% win rate (6,440 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Her W deletes your whole damage profile for a second — hold the gravity root until the whirl spins, then unload the pair.
Track: Samira's W — Blade Whirl (30–22s cooldown). Deletes every projectile for a second — hold your key shots until the whirl is spent.
Read from Aphelios's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Samira.
This is Aphelios's own plan; across 6,440 pooled games the lane is leaning Samira.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even before Samira's dash-and-Whirl pattern comes online. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 stays skill-based as she only farms Combo Style without committing. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 remains even with her unable to fully all-in yet. |
| Levels 4-5 | Aphelios | Levels 4-5 favor you as two-gun combos punish her when Blade Whirl is down. |
| Level 6 | Samira | Level 6 favors Samira because Inferno Trigger plus CC support executes your immobile frame. |
| First item | Samira | First item favors Samira as Shieldbow and Wild Rush resets win the dive 2v2. |
| Two+ items | Aphelios | 2+ items favors you as gun-swap DPS out-ranges her forced-melee brawl. |
Levels 1-3 are even: Samira farms Combo Style stacks but can't fully commit without her dash and Whirl online, so deny her free pokes and last-hit from range. Don't feed her rank progression, keep your paired-gun autos out of her Blade Whirl, and hold Gravitum to punish any early Wild Rush. Wild Rush only refunds itself on a kill, so pick the moment when no minion is low enough to hand it back. Blade Whirl swallows projectiles for a beat, which means the auto goes first and the gun ability second, not the other way round. Hold the wave centrally and she has no wall to dash through to reach you.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Aphelios's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Aphelios vs Samira report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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Samira, slightly — Aphelios wins 47.22% of 6,440 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Samira has a small statistical edge (52.78% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Samira has the slight edge (Aphelios wins 47.22%), though it stays close.
Aphelios takes Press the Attack on the Precision tree with Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline and Coup de Grace, and Sorcery secondary (Manaflow Band and Gathering Storm) vs Samira.
Start Doran's Blade + Health Potion and back for Noonquiver / Pickaxe (≈1000g). Build Kraken Slayer / Collector first, then Infinity Edge, with Plated Steelcaps / Berserker's.
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