Samira vs Veigar Counter Pick

Event Horizon is a cage that stuns enemies passing through it, and Samira’s kit is built entirely around passing through things. Wild Rush dashes her past an enemy, structures included, and Daredevil Impulse pays her for attacking from melee, so the ability she needs to start a fight is the ability that walks into the stun. Veigar holds the matchup at 41.9% against her over 284 games on patch 16.13.1.

Everything after the stun is arithmetic. Primordial Burst scales with the target’s missing health, Phenomenal Evil Power grows his ability power permanently as he strikes champions and scores kills, and Dark Matter falls on a fixed point a stunned target cannot leave. The stat under pressure is 30 base magic resist, not the 105.9 armour Samira reaches at level 18. Her advantages are immediate and physical: 630 to 2,466 health against 580 to 2,416, and 18 base armour makes Veigar the softest early target imaginable, so an uninterrupted approach kills him quickly. He moves at 340 to her 335, though, and at 550 attack range against 500 he never needs to contest the ground she wants. Blade Whirl destroys missiles, and Baleful Strike is one; Dark Matter and Event Horizon are not. Both spend mana, and his 52 base attack damage is the weakest figure in the exchange, so nothing outside his abilities threatens her at all.