Samira

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Samira is a champion in League of Legends (LoL).

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Base statistics Edit 

HP

630 – 2466

MP

349 – 995

HP5

3.25 – 12.6

MP5

8.2 – 20.1

AR

26 – 105.9

AD

57 – 108

MR

30 – 52.1

Crit. DMG

175%

MS

335

Attack range

500

Attack speed

Base AS

0.658

Windup%

15%

AS ratio

N/A

Bonus AS

0 – 56.1%

Missile speed

2800

Unit radius

Gameplay radius

65

Select. radius

100

Pathing radius

41

Select. height

122

Acq. radius

800

Special statistics

• Swiftplay
• ARAM
• Arena
• Nexus Blitz
• One For All
• Ultra Rapid Fire
• Ultimate Spellbook

Damage Dealt

+0%

Damage Received

+0%

AD

「 57 (+ 2.5) 」「 57 – 99.5 」

AS

「 0.658 [base], 0.658 [ratio] (+ 2.8% [growth]) 」「 0.658 – 0.971 」

Damage Dealt

+0%

Damage Received

+0%

Damage Dealt

+0%

Damage Received

+0%

Damage Dealt

-5%

Damage Received

+0%

Damage Dealt

-10%

Damage Received

+0%

Shielding

-1%

Samira

the Desert Rose

Role(s): Bottom

Store price: 1575 | 790

Style:

Difficulty:

Release date

2020-09-21

Last changed

V25.12

Class

Marksman

Legacy class

Marksman, Assassin

Resource

Mana

Range type

Ranged

Adaptive type

 Physical

Abilities

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Daredevil Impulse

TARGET IMMUNITY:

10

TARGET RANGE:

650 / 727.5 / 805 / 882.5 / 960 (based on level)

Innate: Samira's different basic attacks and damaging abilities against enemy champions generate a Style stack, up to a cap. Samira can dash to her  attack range nearby immobilized targets an increased distance away from her to basic attack them.
This attack will briefly knock up monsters and airborne enemies.
Innate: Samira's sword deals bonus magic damage to enemies based on their missing health. She uses her sword when she casts certain abilities or basic attacks enemies within melee range. Innate - Style: Each stack grants  bonus movement speed.

Innate: Samira's damaging basic attacks and abilities against at least one enemy champion different from the previous damaging hit made against champions generate a stack of Style for 6 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits and stacking up to 6 times.

Style: For each stack, Samira gains  2.75 / 3 / 3.25 / 3.5% (based on level) bonus movement speed, up to a maximum of 16.5 / 18 / 19.5 / 21% (based on level). At maximum stacks, Samira can cast Inferno Trigger.

Innate: Samira's basic attacks against targets within 200 units of her use her blade, becoming non-projectile. Blade attacks post-hit, Blade Whirl, Wild Rush, and the slash and explosives of Flair deal 2 – 19 (based on level) (+ 3.5% – 10.5% (based on level) AD) bonus magic damage, increased by 0% – 100% (based on target's missing health).

Samira's basic attack against an immobilized target is empowered to have an uncancellable windup and deal the attack's damage over 6 strikes in 0.5 seconds. If the target is a monster or is airborne, the attack also knocks them up for 0.5 seconds. Samira will dash into her  attack range of the target if they are nearby.

The empowered attack resets Samira's basic attack timer, is affected by critical strike modifiers, applies on-hit effects only once, and cannot occur on the same target more than once every few seconds.

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Passive

Damage classification

Type

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Sub-type

Magic

Counters

Spell shield

See Notes

Parries

Blocked

Projectile

See Notes

Grounded

See Notes

Knockdown

Interrupted

• The stack count is represented by the grades to the left of Samira's health bar, visible to the player only, as well as a stack counter under the health bar, visible to all players.
• The empowered attack can trigger on immobilizes from both ally and enemy sources.
  • Those applied by the neutral team (e.g. Dragon's initial knock back) can be targeted.
  • It cannot trigger against enemies knocked airborne by a Blast Cone triggered by anyone.^(note)
• The empowered attack's interaction with immunities to crowd control:
  • It will not trigger against crowd control immune and displacement immune targets.
    • The knock up will be resisted by Riposte, but the ability does not trigger its on- immobilization effect.^(note)
• The empowered attack will not apply the knock up against suspended enemies.
• The empowered attack will only apply the knock up if the target is still immobilized or airborne upon being hit. It will not apply if they are no longer disabled when hit.
• The empowered attack cannot be used against a target with a spell shield.
• The application of the knock up can occur on any of the missiles of the empowered attack if it had not already occurred on the first missile.
  • A missile that is parried by Riposte or is dodged, blocked, or missed while Samira is blinded cannot apply the knock up.
• While grounded or rooted, Samira cannot dash into range to use the empowered attack. She can only use it if her target is within her  attack range while under this condition.
• The on-target cooldown will apply even if the empowered attack is parried.
• The empowered attack rolls critical strike for each shot of the flurry.
• The bonus magic damage dealt with the blade is default damage. The empowered attack is first 1 instance of basic damage and then 5 instances of default damage.
  • The attacks do not deal the bonus damage against structures.
• The empowered attack is unaffected by  attack speed modifiers.
• Guinsoo's Rageblade's Phantom Hit and Runaan's Hurricane's bolts will not apply the bonus magic damage, since it is a hit effect of specifically the melee attack casts.
• Attacks with the gun and blade do not count as different attacks for stacking Style.
• Basic attacks using the blade are still classified as ranged.
• The melee attack's range condition is unaffected by  attack range modifiers (e.g. Rapid Firecannon).
  • Blade range is calculated edge-to-edge just like basic attack ranges are, hence both Samira gaining bonus size or her target increases the total distance at which Samira can attack them with the blade.
• Since the knock up requires an exterior source to immobilize the enemy, Aftershock will be swapped with Grasp of the Undying for Samira at the start of the game.

• Abilities blocked by spell shields will still grant Samira Style stacks.
• Samira still gains Style stacks from damaging attacks and abilities landed against clones.

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Flair

COST:

30 Mana

COOLDOWN:

6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2

CAST TIME:

0.25

TARGET RANGE:

340

RANGE:

950 / 400

WIDTH:

120 / 130

SPEED:

2600

Active: Samira fires a shot in the target direction that deals physical damage to the first enemy hit. If Flair is cast towards an enemy in melee range, Samira will instead slash with her sword, dealing physical damage. If Flair is cast during Wild Rush, Samira deploys explosives in her wake that deal physical damage to enemies hit.

Active: Samira fires a shot in the target direction that deals physical damage to the first enemy hit.

Physical Damage:

5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+ 95 / 102.5 / 110 / 117.5 / 125% AD)

If a targetable enemy is in front of Samira at the time of cast, she will instead slash with her blade in a cone, dealing the same damage to enemies hit.

If Flair is cast during Wild Rush, Samira deploys explosives in her wake that detonate upon the end of the dash, dealing the same damage to enemies hit.

Flair can critically strike for (125% +  40%) damage and will apply  life steal at 80% effectiveness.

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Physical

Minion Aggro

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Spell shield

Blocked

Projectile

See Notes

• Applies spell damage on the shot and area damage on the slash and explosives.
  •  Life steal will always benefit from the damage dealt at 80% effectiveness and does not take into account of the ability's spell effects, whereas on the other hand for omnivamp does, and it will modify the healing accordingly.
• Flair's shot against an enemy champion will aggro nearby enemy minions.
• Flair can be cast during Wild Rush even if Blade Whirl or Inferno Trigger are active.
• The slash and explosives roll their critical strike against each target individually.
• The shot and the slash do not count as different abilities for stacking Style.
• Samira's next attack after using Flair will occasionally come out faster.^(note)
• Samira can use Wild Rush during Flair's cast time.
• This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
  • Flair will fire or slash from wherever Samira is at the end of the cast time.
    • Samira will always slash in her facing direction, and she will turn to face the target direction only once at the start of the cast time.
• Flair can be buffered 0.5 seconds before it comes off cooldown.
• Only the shot will be destroyed by projectile-intercepting effects.
• The explosive placement is illustrated in Wild Rush regardless of whether Flair is available.
  • The VFX always covers the the full dash's distance even if Wild Rush is interrupted mid-dash.

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Blade Whirl

COST:

60 Mana

COOLDOWN:

30 / 28 / 26 / 24 / 22

CAST TIME:

0.1

EFFECT RADIUS:

325

Active: Samira briefly spins her blade twice, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies each time. During this time, she destroys all incoming enemy projectiles.

Active: Samira spins her blade over 0.75 seconds, destroying all hostile non- turret projectiles within the area for the duration.

Samira slashes twice during Blade Whirl, each one dealing physical damage to all nearby enemies. The first slash occurs immediately and the second one occurs after the duration.

Physical Damage per Hit:►

20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 (+ 50% bonus AD)

◄Total Physical Damage:

40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+ 100% bonus AD)

Samira cannot basic attack nor cast Flair during Blade Whirl. Casting Inferno Trigger will end Blade Whirl early.

▶️ "Don't think so."

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Targeting input

Auto

Damage classification

Type

Area damage

Sub-type

Physical

Counters

Spell shield

Blocked

• Spell shield will block the damage from one slash.
• While the ability has a cast time - the cast time has no effect on the ability's usability. All effects begin immediately and Samira can move throughout.
• Blade Whirl can be buffered 0.5 seconds before it comes off cooldown.
• Both slashes count as the same ability for stacking Style.
• The effect ending early includes the second slash not being performed, if applicable.
• Entering stasis will also end Blade Whirl early.
  • Other item actives and channeling Teleport or Recall will not end the effect early.
• Samira can ignore the lockout for Flair and basic attacks if she uses Wild Rush and queues up Flair and/or a basic attack at the start of it.^(bug)

Tips & Tricks

• Flair cannot be directly cast during this ability, but can still occur through the Wild Rush + Flair interaction.

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Wild Rush

COST:

40 Mana

COOLDOWN:

20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12

CAST TIME:

none

TARGET RANGE:

600

RANGE:

650 / 800 / -150

WIDTH:

300

SPEED:

1600

Active: Samira dashes at the target enemy or enemy structure, dealing magic damage to enemies she passes through. She also gains  bonus attack speed for a short time. Scoring a champion takedown  resets Wild Rush's cooldown.

Active: Samira dashes a fixed distance in the direction of the target enemy or enemy structure, dealing magic damage to enemies she passes through. She also gains  bonus attack speed for 5 seconds.

Magic Damage:

50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 (+ 20% bonus AD)

Bonus Attack Speed:

20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%

Scoring a takedown against an enemy champion within 3 seconds of damaging them resets Wild Rush's  cooldown.

Flair and Inferno Trigger can be cast during the dash. Casting Blade Whirl will buffer it to cast at the end of the dash.

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Unit

Target out-of-range override

Walk in range of the target unit to cast

Damage classification

Type

Area damage

Sub-type

Magic

Minion Aggro

Drawn

Counters

Spell shield

Blocked

Grounded

Disabled

Knockdown

Interrupted

• Samira gains the attack speed buff at the start of the dash.
• Wild Rush does not deal its damage to turrets.
• Wild Rush prioritizes targeting champions over turrets.
• Wild Rush can be buffered 0.5 seconds before it comes off cooldown.
• Inferno Trigger will be buffered to cast at the end of the dash if Flair was cast during the dash.
• Casting Flash during Wild Rush will interrupt the dash but deal damage to nearby enemies at the location.
  • If Flair was cast during this time, an explosive will also be placed at that location.
• Wild Rush will also reset if Samira kills or gets assist credit on a clone that dies (to hostiles).^(note)

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Inferno Trigger

COST:

6 Style

CAST TIME:

none

STATIC COOLDOWN:

5

EFFECT RADIUS:

600

Active: Samira unleashes a torrent of shots, reducing her  movement speed and rapidly firing shots that deal physical damage to nearby enemies. Each shot can critically strike and apply  life steal. Inferno Trigger costs 6 Style stacks.

Active: Samira unleashes a torrent of shots for 2.277 seconds, reducing her movement speed by 30% and rapidly shooting at nearby enemies over 2.013 seconds at sporadic times in 0.2-second intervals each (up to 10 times per enemy), dealing physical damage with each shot, reduced by 75% against minions. This damage is affected by critical strike modifiers and applies  life steal at 80% effectiveness.

Physical Damage Per Shot:►

5 / 15 / 25 (+ 45% AD)

◄Total Physical Damage:

50 / 150 / 250 (+ 450% AD)

Minion Damage Per Shot:►

1.25 / 3.75 / 6.25 (+ 11.25% AD)

◄Total Minion Damage:

12.5 / 37.5 / 62.5 (+ 112.5% AD)

A nearby visible enemy is required to cast this ability, and targets do not have to be visible to be shot at. Style stacks are consumed at the end of the effect.

Samira cannot basic attack nor cast Flair and Blade Whirl during Inferno Trigger, but she can still move. Inferno Trigger will end prematurely by all forms of cast-inhibiting crowd control as well as disarm. Inferno Trigger cannot be cast while Samira is disarmed.

▶️ "Showtime!"

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Targeting input

Proximity

Target out-of-range override

The ability will not cast

Damage classification

Type

AOE DOT damage

Sub-type

Physical

Minion Aggro

Drawn

Counters

Spell shield

See Notes

Projectile

Blocked

Disruption

Interrupted

• Samira's facing direction remains as it had been or, if she is moving, towards that direction during Inferno Trigger.
• The  movement speed reduction stacks additively with other movement speed bonuses.
  • It is a negative bonus, not a slow, and is thus not reduced by slow resist.
• Inferno Trigger's area of effect is fixed around Samira.
• Spell shield will block the damage of one shot.
• Inferno Trigger will not end if there are no enemies that remain in range.
• Inferno Trigger can be buffered 0.5 seconds before it becomes unsealed or off cooldown.
• The bottom of the player's screen will have a fiery visual effect while Samira is at S rank and Inferno Trigger has at least one rank.
• Since Inferno Trigger's cooldown is static, Ultimate Hunter will be swapped with Treasure Hunter for Samira at the start of the game.

Map-Specific Differences

Arena differences ^edit

• Base damage per tick changed to 5 / 10 / 15.

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/taunt

RANGE:

950 / 890

WIDTH:

120

SPEED:

1400

Samira's taunt prevents her from inputting attack commands and casting non-movement abilities. After a few seconds, she will toss a coin in the direction she is facing. If she has at least 1, the coin deals  1 true damage to the first enemy champion hit, triggering Daredevil Impulse but granting them 1 of Samira's gold.

Samira's taunt prevents her from inputting attack commands and casting non-movement abilities, and she may only interrupt it herself with a movement command. After 3 seconds without interruption, she will toss a coin in the direction she is facing.

If she has at least 1, the coin deals  1 true damage to the first enemy champion hit, triggering Daredevil Impulse but granting them 1 of Samira's gold.

If cast within 1200 units of a visible enemy champion, Samira will turn to face towards the closest one to perform the animation.

Samira's Taunt can target and hit dead enemy champions, granting them 1 but not triggering other effects.

▶️ "Buy something nice. On me."

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Spell damage

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True

Counters

Spell shield

Blocked

Projectile

Blocked

• Samira must have at least 1 to weaponize her Taunt animation.
• Using her Taunt does not count as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and triggering Force Pulse's passive.
• Flash and Wild Rush can be cast during her Taunt, but neither interrupt the effect.^(bug)
  • If Samira's facing direction is changed before the coin is fired (e.g. by casting Wild Rush), she will still turn toward her initial facing direction to toss the coin. Note: facing direction, not toward the location of the target.

Champion skins

This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Samira (Collection).

Original

21.09.2020

Samira stares death in the eye with unyielding confidence, seeking thrill wherever she goes. After her Shuriman home was destroyed as a child, Samira found her true calling in Noxus, where she built a reputation as a stylish daredevil taking on dangerous missions of the highest caliber. Wielding black-powder pistols and a custom-engineered blade, Samira thrives in life-or-death circumstances, eliminating any who stand in her way with flash and flair.

Emily O’Brien

Jessica 'OwleyCat' Oyhenart

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PsyOps

1350

21.09.2020

Fearless and deadly, Samira was once a renowned soldier of fortune. A born thrill seeker, she fights not for fame or wealth, but to push the limits of her skill. Through intense training, her innate psychic powers have been fully unleashed, allowing her to turn every mission and every kill into a thrilling display of stylish flair.

Emily O’Brien

Jennifer Wuestling

Black Rose Group

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New Recall

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PsyOps Samira Chromas

Amethyst

Catseye

Hunter

Obsidian

Peridot

Rose Quartz

Ruby

Sapphire

Space Groove

1350

01.04.2021

A groovy, thrill-seeking bodyguard and elite warrior from the Hot Tub Nebula, Samira took a job directly from the Three Party Goddesses to save Lux from an impending invasion of the Normal World. Now, as the pair liberate planets across the galaxy, Samira must do everything in her power to keep Lux safe—both from Lissandra and from Lux's own lack of self preservation instincts.

Emily O’Brien

Xiao Guang Sun, West Studio

Space Groove

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New Recall

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Space Groove Samira Chromas

Amethyst

Aquamarine

Disco

Emerald

Obsidian

Pearl

Rainbow

Rose Quartz

Ruby

High Noon

1350

26.05.2022

The poster was straightforward enough: “WANTED: Tahm Kench - Devil, DEAD OR ALIVE”, followed by a generous sum. Only the Mechanical Devil's got that kinda cash to pay. Samira ain't sure why the other bounty hunters seemed so spooked by a little ol' devil hunt. Well, let 'em shy away. This gunpowder witch don't scare easy.

Emily O’Brien

Jeremy Chong, West Studio

High Noon

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New SFX/VFX

New Animations

New Recall

Chromas

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High Noon Samira Chromas

Catseye

Emerald

Nomad

Obsidian

Paragon

Rose Quartz

Ruby

Sapphire

Tanzanite

Turquoise

Soul Fighter

3250

20.07.2023

A renowned bounty hunter who can't sit still cause she's ALWAYS on the hunt for her next thrill! This weapons master can use every dangerous tool in (and out!) of her arsenal to fight with STYLE in the Tournament of Souls! Our gracious host better sleep with one eye open, because rumor has it this queen wants to collect his crown! Make way for… SAMIRA!

Emily O’Brien

Jennifer Wuestling

Soul Fighter

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New voiceover

New SFX/VFX

New Animations

New Recall

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Masque of the Black Rose

Battle Pass

09.01.2025

Dear Samira, in recognition of your daring feats across the empire, we invite you to the Silken Danse. The noble houses have heard about your great potential from a trusted name in our ranks, Captain Indari. So, Desert Rose—from one fearless woman to another—you are welcome to our garden. –Lady Elise

Emily O’Brien

Jiunn Kuo, Kudos Productions

Masque of the Black Rose

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New Recall

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Patch history

For the expanded patch notes, see here.

V25.12

• General
  • Bug Fix: Restored champion kill VO.
• Daredevil Impulse
  • Bonus movement speed per stack increased to 2.75 / 3 / 3.25 / 3.5% (based on level) from 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5% (based on level).
    • Maximum bonus movement speed increased to 16.5 / 18 / 19.5 / 21% (based on level) from 12 / 15 / 18 / 21% (based on level).
• Flair
  • Base damage increased to 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 from 0 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 20.

V25.11

• Flair
  • Life steal effectiveness increased to 80% from 66.6%.
• Blade Whirl
  • Bonus AD ratio per hit reduced to 50% bonus AD from 60% bonus AD.
    • Maximum bonus AD ratio reduced to 100% bonus AD from 120% bonus AD.
• Inferno Trigger
  • Life steal effectiveness increased to 80% from 50%.
• Masque of the Black Rose Samira
  • Adjusted splash art.
  • Updated models and VFX.

V25.S1.3

• Wild Rush
  • Attack speed duration increased to 5 seconds from 3.

V14.18

• Flair
  • AD ratio increased to 95 / 102.5 / 110 / 117.5 / 125% AD from 85 / 95 / 105 / 115 / 125% AD.

V14.12

• Soul Fighter Samira
  • Bug Fix: Pentakill celebration is no longer partially missing confetti and spotlight VFX.

V14.10 - May 16th Hotfix

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 3 from 3.3.
• Blade Whirl
  • Bonus AD ratio per hit reduced to 60% bonus AD from 80% bonus AD.
    • Maximum bonus AD ratio reduced to 120% bonus AD from 160% bonus AD.
• Inferno Trigger
  • AD ratio per hit reduced to 45% AD from 50% AD.
    • Maximum AD ratio reduced to 450% AD from 500% AD.

V13.23

• General
  • Removed: No longer replaces Aftershock with Grasp of the Undying.
  • Removed: No longer replaces Glacial Augment with First Strike.

V13.17

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 630 from 600.

V13.14

• Taunt
  • Bug Fix: Now properly grants a Style stack when the coin hits an enemy champion.
• Flair
  • Bug Fix: Can no longer cast the ability again despite being on cooldown after launching the empowered attack from Daredevil Impulse.

V13.9

• Daredevil Impulse
  • Bug Fix: Empowered attack no longer knocks up epic monsters.
• Inferno Trigger
  • Bug Fix: Animation can no longer be cancelled unintentionally.

V13.5

• Daredevil Impulse
  • Bonus movement speed per stack changed to 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5% (based on level) from 1 / 2 / 3 / 4% (based on level).
    • Maximum bonus movement speed changed to 12 / 15 / 18 / 21% (based on level) from 6 / 12 / 18 / 24% (based on level).

V13.4

• Daredevil Impulse
  • Bonus movement speed per stack changed to 1 / 2 / 3 / 4% (based on level) from 3.5% at all levels.
    • Maximum bonus movement speed changed to 6 / 12 / 18 / 24% (based on level) from 21% at all levels.
• Inferno Trigger
  • Life steal effectiveness reduced to 50% from 66.6%.

V12.23

• Flair
  • Bug Fix: Casting it during Wild Rush now properly counts as two instances of damage for effects such as Conqueror and Electrocute.

V12.22

• Stats
  • Base mana increased to 349 from 348.88.
  • Base mana regeneration increased to 8.2 from 8.18.

V12.13

• Wild Rush
  • Bug Fix: Cooldown is no longer reset from scoring a takedown against an enemy clone.

V12.11

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth increased to 3.3 from 3.
• Flair
  • AD ratio increased to 85 / 95 / 105 / 115 / 125% AD from 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120% AD.

V12.10

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 600 from 530.
  • Health growth increased to 108 from 94.
  • Armor growth increased to 4.7 from 3.5.
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.

V12.5

• Stats
  • Health growth increased to 94 from 88.
  • Armor growth increased to 3.5 from 3.
• Inferno Trigger
  • Static cooldown reduced to 5 seconds from 8.

V12.3

• Daredevil Impulse
  • Bug Fix: No longer grants an additional Style stack from executing an enemy champion with The Collector's Death and Taxes.

V12.2

• Inferno Trigger
  • Base damage per shot increased to 5 / 15 / 25 from 0 / 10 / 20.
    • Maximum base damage increased to 50 / 150 / 250 from 0 / 100 / 200.

V11.24

• Inferno Trigger
  • Mana cost reduced to 0 at all ranks from 100 / 50 / 0.

V11.18

• Flair
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it did not apply life steal when cast during Wild Rush.

V11.6

• Blade Whirl
  • Bug Fix: Second slash now properly always deals damage.

V11.5

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth increased to 3 from 2.3.
• Flair
  • AD ratio increased to 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120% AD from 80 / 87.5 / 95 / 102.5 / 110% AD.
• Inferno Trigger
  • Bug Fix: Now properly triggers Ravenous Hydra's Cleave.

V11.4

• Daredevil Impulse
  • AD ratio changed to 3.5% – 10.5% (based on level) AD from 7.5% AD.
• Flair
  • AD ratio changed to 80 / 87.5 / 95 / 102.5 / 110% AD from 100% AD at all ranks.
• Blade Whirl
  • Duration reduced to 0.75 seconds from 1.25.
• Wild Rush
  • Dash speed reduced to 1600 from 2050.
  • New Effect: Can now be cast on enemy structures to dash through them, but will target champions over structures.
    • Damage is not applied against structures.
  • Removed: Can no longer be cast on allies.
• Inferno Trigger
  • Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 3.

V11.1

• Daredevil Impulse
  • Undocumented: Prowler's Claw no longer counts as a unique spell cast towards stacking Style.

V10.25

• Daredevil Impulse
  • New Effect: Empowered attack now applies the knock up to enemy champions and minions only if they are airborne, rather than if they are immobilized.
    • Empowered attack still applies the knock up to immobilized monsters.
  • Undocumented: Empowered attack now only applies the knock up if the target is still immobilized/airborne upon being hit, rather than applying regardless.
• Flair
  • Life steal effectiveness reduced to 66.6% from 100%.
  • Bug Fix: Critically striking now deals the proper bonus damage.
• Inferno Trigger
  • Life steal effectiveness reduced to 66.6% from 100%.

V10.24

• Daredevil Impulse
  • AD ratio reduced to 7.5% AD from 10% AD.
  • Dash range reduced to 650 / 727.5 / 805 / 882.5 / 960 (based on level) units from 800 / 850 / 900 / 950 / 1000.

V10.23

• Daredevil Impulse
  • Bug Fix: Empowered attack can no longer be used on immobilized targets that have a spell shield or are untargetable.

V10.22

• Stats
  • Base attack damage reduced to 57 from 59.
  • Base armor reduced 26 from 28.

V10.21

• Wild Rush
  • Cooldown increased to 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 seconds from 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11.
  • Bonus attack speed reduced to 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% from 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%.

V10.20

• Undocumented: Samira's Taunt no longer triggers on-cast effects.

V10.19 - September 22nd Hotfix

• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 530 from 600.
• Inferno Trigger
  • Base damage per shot reduced to 0 / 10 / 20 from 10 / 20 / 30.
  • AD ratio per shot reduced to 50% AD from 60% AD.

V10.19 - Added

• Daredevil Impulse (Innate)
  • Innate - Style: Damaging basic attacks and abilities against at least one enemy champion different from the previous damaging hit made against them grants Samira a Style stack for 6 seconds, up to 6 stacks, refreshing on damaging attacks and abilities against enemy champions. The stack count is represented by the grades to the left of her health bar for Samira herself, and a stack counter underneath the bar that is visible to all units.
  • Samira gains 0% – 21% (based on Style grade) bonus movement speed.
  • Innate: Samira's basic attacks against targets in 200 range use her blade, becoming non-projectile. Basic attacks on-hit within this range and Blade Whirl, Wild Rush, and the slash and explosives of Flair deal 2 – 19 (based on level) (+ 10% AD) bonus magic damage, increased by 0% – 100% (based on target's missing health).
  • Additionally, Samira's basic attacks against immobilized enemies deal the attack's damage over 6 rapid attacks and knock up the target for 0.5 seconds. This causes her basic attack timer to reset and the attack to become unstoppable. If the target is not within attack range, Samira will dash into it from up to 800 / 850 / 900 / 950 / 1000 (based on level) units and then attack. This effect cannot occur on the same target more than once every 10 seconds.
  • The empowered attack can critically strike. On-hit effects are only applied once.
• Flair (Q)
  • Active: Samira fires a shot in the target direction, dealing 0 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 (+ 100% AD) physical damage to the first enemy it hits.
  • If a targetable enemy is in front of Samira, she will slash with her blade instead, dealing the same damage to all enemies hit in a cone.
  • Casting Flair during Wild Rush will cause Samira to deploy explosives along her path which detonate upon the end of the dash, dealing the same damage to enemies within the covered distance. This can be done while performing Blade Whirl and Inferno Trigger.
  • Both the shot and slash can critically strike for (25% + 25%) bonus physical damage and apply  life steal at full effectiveness.
  • Mana Cost: 30.
  • Cooldown: 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 seconds.
  • Width: 120 / 130.
  • Cast Time: 0.25 seconds.
  • Speed: 2600.
• Blade Whirl (W)
  • Active: Samira slashes around herself twice over 1.25 seconds, the first slash occurring immediately and the second being performed 0.25 seconds before the duration ends, each one dealing 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 (+ 80% bonus AD) physical damage to nearby enemies.
  • Samira destroys all hostile non- turret projectiles that enter or are in her vicinity during this time.
  • Samira cannot attack nor cast Flair during Blade Whirl. Casting Inferno Trigger will end Blade Whirl early without performing the second slash.
  • Mana Cost: 60.
  • Cooldown: 30 / 28 / 26 / 24 / 22 seconds.
  • Cast Time: None.
• Wild Rush (E)
  • Active: Samira dashes in the direction of the target allied or enemy unit and slashes all enemies in her path, dealing 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 (+ 20% bonus AD) magic damage and gaining 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% bonus attack speed for 3 seconds.
  • Takedowns on enemy champions reset Wild Rush's cooldown.
  • Mana Cost: 40.
  • Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 seconds.
  • Target Range: 600 / 650.
  • Width: 100.
  • Cast Time: None.
  • Speed: 2050.
• Inferno Trigger (R)
  • Active: Samira unleashes a torrent of shots from her weapons, rapidly shooting at all nearby enemies every 0.2 seconds over 2 seconds, slowing herself by 25% and dealing 10 / 20 / 30 (+ 60% AD) physical damage with each shot, reduced by 75% against minions.
  • Each shot can critically strike for (100% + 25%) bonus physical damage and applies  life steal at full effectiveness.
  • Inferno Trigger cannot be cast unless the Style cost is satisfied, and will reset the grade back to 0 stacks when the effect ends.
  • Samira cannot attack nor cast Flair or Blade Whirl during Inferno Trigger, but she is still able to move. Inferno Trigger will end prematurely by all forms of interrupting crowd control.
  • Cost: 100 / 50 / 0 mana + 6 Style.
  • Static Cooldown: 3 seconds.
  • Cast Time: None.
• Taunt (Ctrl + 2)
  • Taunt: If Samira does not interrupt the emote for 3 seconds, she tosses a coin in the direction she is facing. If she has at least 1, the first enemy champion hit, including dead ones, takes an insulting 1 true damage but also receives 1 from Samira.
  • If cast while a corpse of an enemy champion is within range, Samira will turn to face towards the closest one.
  • This spell counts as an ability for Daredevil Impulse.
  • Target Range: 950.
  • Width: 120.
  • Width: 1400.

Trivia

• Samira was accidentally pushed to PBE prior to the supposed reveal.
• Samira is one of 22 champions without a single  ability power ratio on any ability, the others are: Aatrox, Ambessa, Camille, Darius, Dr. Mundo, Draven, Garen, K'Sante, Kayn, Kled, Naafiri, Nilah, Olaf, Pyke, Riven, Sett, Talon, Urgot, Xayah, Yone, and Zed.
• Unlike conventional emotes, Samira's Taunt has mechanical functions. It creates a coin skillshot that, if Samira has 1 to spare, deals 1 damage and gives 1 to enemy champions. It also automatically aims towards dead enemy champions in range.
• Samira's movement animations change form depending on whether her recent attack used the gun or blade.
• The blocking animation of Blade Whirl has Samira explicitly shoot every single incoming projectile.
• Samira was teased ingame with the Style: Rank S loot item earnable in patch V10.17. It was awarded by scoring a takedown after fighting in a manner like Daredevil Impulse.
• If players look at the Daredevil Impulse stacks in the slot, it will show "Why are you looking? Go style on your enemies!"

See also

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Attack windup

The attack windup is a portion of the basic attack animation that must play out in order to launch it. For projectile basic attacks, the windup usually aligns with drawing the projectile on-screen.

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The attack windup is displayed as a percentage, and any windup modifier is listed as a decimal next to it.

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Attack speed ratio

The Attack speed ratio (AS ratio) adjusts the effectiveness of bonus AS from all sources. It is usually equal to the unit's base AS (level 1 with no bonuses), but tuning to a higher or lower relative value translates to more or less bonus AS received compared to other units with the same base AS.

Total AS = Base AS + Bonus AS × AS Ratio
(All values in decimal form)

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The ingame stats HUD displays the AS ratio instead of base AS to communicate this comparative effectiveness. The Wiki opts to always list both stats and show the AS ratio as "N/A" if the two are equal.

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Gameplay radius

A unit's gameplay radius is a stat that most closely resembles the concept of a 'hitbox', and is the radius used for edge range effects, which include basic attacks, line collision missiles, rectangular AOEs, and others. The gameplay radius determines the reach of both incoming and outgoing effects: for example, enemies are within a unit's  basic attack range based on the edge of their gameplay radius and vice versa.

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Selection radius

A unit's selection radius is a stat that determines the horizontally furthest point from the center of their model that other players' cursor is allowed to be, while still maintaining the ability to select that unit.

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Pathing radius

A unit's pathing radius is a stat that determines the gameplay area they occupy for unit-collision and pathfinding logic. A unit's center cannot intersect with another unit's pathing radius, unless one of them is ghosted.

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Selection height

A unit's selection height is a stat that determines the vertically furthest point from the center of their model at the ground that other players' cursor is allowed to be, while still maintaining the ability to select that unit.

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Gameplay in League of Legends takes place in two dimensions no matter the visuals. However, a virtual height dimension that is perpendicular to the ground creates the game's three-dimensional view, which in combination with the camera's perspective necessitates the usage of the selection height.

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Acquisition radius

A unit's acquisition range is a stat that determines the distance at which they will acquire attack targets when a target unit is not specified by the player.

• Auto-attacking automatically orders an idle champion to acquire enemies within this range. This can be disabled in the Settings.
• Attack-move commands scan for targets within this range while moving toward a given location.

 Attack range bonuses modify the champion's acquisition range by the same amount.

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Bottom

Within a drafted team, the Bottom Carry is one of the two champions assigned to the bottom lane alongside the Support. Being the most vulnerable, the Bottom Carry has to acquire as much gold as possible to purchase key items that will greatly increase their fighting potential.

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Within a duo lane, the optimal strategy for earning gold is to designate a single champion to farm while the other is recommended to purchase an economy item. The Bottom Carry is expected to fulfill the former designation: the position is made for champions that highly depend on item-based power spikes.

Marksmen are the most likely champions to be selected in the Bottom Carry position.

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Marksman

Marksmen (formerly "Carries") excel at dealing reliable sustained damage at range (usually through basic attacks) while constantly skirting the edge of danger. Although Marksmen have the ability to stay relatively safe by kiting their foes, they are very fragile and are extremely reliant on powerful item purchases to become true damage threats.

At present, Marksmen do not have any official subclasses. The following have been considered:

• Demolisher
• Scrapper

Examples

• Ashe
• Ezreal
• Lucian
• Kai'Sa
• Jhin

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Marksman (Legacy)

Marksman (formerly known as 'Carry') excel at dealing reliable sustained damage at range (usually through basic attacks) while constantly skirting the edge of danger.

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Assassin (Legacy)

Assassins are fragile but agile damage-focused melee champions that look to swiftly take down their targets.

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Mana

 Mana (also known as MP) is a stat that is the resource of many champions necessary to cast most of their abilities. Mana can be restored via mana regeneration and some abilities, items, runes, and buffs.

Mana is represented in-game by the blue bar within the HUD, indicating the champion's current mana and maximum mana. Current mana is reduced by expenditure through paying an ability's mana cost.

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Ranged

Ranged champions have a basic attack  range usually beyond 300 units. Many deal damage through projectiles, which are subject to mitigating effects like Wind Wall. Some champions can shift between a ranged and melee form, and certain items/runes differ for ranged characters.

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Champion

Champions are the player-controlled characters in League of Legends. Each champion possesses unique abilities and attributes.

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Dash

A dash is a quick movement action by a unit in which they move to a specific direction or location while traversing the intervening distance, ignoring the boundaries of terrain.

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The game engine does not take into account the height of the unit; dashes that depict air travel are considered to be on the ground for targeting purposes such as skill-shots.

• Dashes should not be confused with displacement effects, which are usually sourced from enemy units (and are classified as crowd control debuffs).
• Dashes are interrupted by stasis (from an enemy), knockdown, and blinks.
• Dashes are overridden by all move blocks, which includes displacements and other dashes, as well as a few other cases.
• Not all dashes can traverse terrain (e.g. Justice Punch, Searing Charge, Tumble).
• Some dashes gain increased distance when directed through terrain (e.g. Umbral Dash, Perfect Execution, Phantom Undertow).

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Immobilize

Immobilized units cannot control their movement. The following crowd control effects immobilize the unit:

• Airborne
• Forced Action ( Berserk, Charm, Flee, Taunt)
• Root
• Sleep
• Stasis
• Stun ( Suspension)
• Suppression

Impaired movement is a similar term that, in addition to the above, also refers to units that are slowed.

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Edge range

Edge range is calculated from the edge of a source unit's hitbox to the edge of a target unit's hitbox.

• Edge range is mostly used for basic attacks; skill shots; and point-blank areas of effect (including auras).
• These become more effective against large champions, as the source gains more reach against them. This may be favorable or unfavorable: durable champions tend to be larger and thus easier to hit, and frail champions tend to be smaller and more difficult to hit.

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Airborne

A unit that is knocked airborne undergoes a forced displacement in a specified direction, to a specific point, or for a set duration at its current location, during which it is also unable to control its movement, declare attacks, cast abilities, activate items or use the summoner spells Flash, Teleport, Hexflash, and Mark / Dash.
Airborne is an immobilizing effect.

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Interrupts:	Interrupts attack windups (excluding uncancellable windups), and all channeled and charged abilities. The accompanying displacement overrides all other previous displacements, including dashes and other airborne effects.
Reduction:	The duration of airborne and its forced movement execution time is unaffected by Tenacity.
Resist:	Resisted by crowd control immunity, displacement immunity, and Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases.
Removal:	The forced movement that is applied alongside airborne effects cannot be removed by cleanses, which innately disables attacking and moving and can be overridden by dashing, blinking or lunging. Cleansing effects, with the exceptions of Milio's Breath of Life, Cleanse, Mikael's Blessing, and Quicksilver, remove the airborne status effect.

Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.

• The crowd control effect may still be cleansed if it is applied as a debuff separate from the originated ability.

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Monster

Monsters are neutral units in League of Legends. Unlike minions, monsters do not fight for either team, and will only do so if aggroed (provoked) – with the exception of the Rift Scuttler, which simply runs away when attacked.

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Champion

Champions are the player-controlled characters in League of Legends. Each champion possesses unique abilities and attributes.

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Inferno Trigger

STATIC CD: 5

Active: Samira unleashes a torrent of shots, reducing her  movement speed and rapidly firing shots that deal physical damage to nearby enemies.

Each shot can critically strike and apply  life steal.

Inferno Trigger costs 6 Style stacks.

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Projectile

A projectile or missile is any entity not classified as a unit ( champion, minion, monster, etc.) that travels at any given velocity.

• Moving units are not considered projectiles under any circumstance (including dashing units, airborne units, or units thrown by some abilities such as Force of Will or Roar of the Slayer.).
• Braum's Unbreakable, Mel's Rebuttal, Samira's Blade Whirl, and Yasuo's Wind Wall can block, destroy and / or stop projectiles.
  • Some ranged basic attacks (including turrets) and abilities don't use projectiles and will bypass projectile-blocking effects.
• Some abilities will destroy all currently incoming homing projectiles.

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Blade Whirl

COOLDOWN: 30 / 28 / 26 / 24 / 22

Active: Samira briefly spins her blade twice, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies each time. During this time, she destroys all incoming enemy projectiles.

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Wild Rush

COOLDOWN: 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12

Active: Samira dashes at the target enemy or enemy structure, dealing magic damage to enemies she passes through. She also gains  bonus attack speed for a short time.

Scoring a champion takedown  resets Wild Rush's cooldown.

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Flair

COOLDOWN: 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2

Active: Samira fires a shot in the target direction that deals physical damage to the first enemy hit.

If Flair is cast towards an enemy in melee range, Samira will instead slash with her sword, dealing physical damage.

If Flair is cast during Wild Rush, Samira deploys explosives in her wake that deal physical damage to enemies hit.

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Uncancellable windup

Some effects cause a basic attack to have an uncancellable windup. Unlike normal basic attacks and similar to the cast time of a spell, the windup of these attacks cannot be interrupted by neither the user themselves nor any status effect, other than death, polymorph and Quinn's Vault, and sometimes untargetability and range.

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Any effect that would disrupt an attack's windup, aside from the ones noted above, are ignored by basic attacks with uncancellable windups. If the attack doesn't lock out other abilities, they may be used normally, and the basic attack will hit during the ability cast.

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Monster

Monsters are neutral units in League of Legends. Unlike minions, monsters do not fight for either team, and will only do so if aggroed (provoked) – with the exception of the Rift Scuttler, which simply runs away when attacked.

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Basic attack reset

An attack reset is a mechanic that will result in a champion's attack timer being reset to zero. When this effect takes place during the basic attack's cooldown and not its windup, it allows the attacker to start a second attack quicker than normal.

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Casting certain ability and item actives can reset the attack timer. Hail of Blades generates an additional stack of its effect each time the user resets their attack timer from attack resets.

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Critical strike

Critical strike refers to an effect that deals increased damage under specific circumstances, denoted as   critical strike damage. The most common form of critical strike occurs on basic attacks, which triggers based on  critical strike chance.

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By default, a critical strike deals 175% of the normal damage. Critical damage modifiers such as Infinity Edge can increase this percentage.

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On-hit effect

On-hit is an umbrella term for a type of effect that triggers on instances of basic damage, or generally upon a basic attack or certain attack-like ability hitting a target. Most on-hit effects deal proc damage or default damage, which are non-reactive (= the effects don't trigger more effects).

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• Critical strikes are not on-hit effects. An ability listed as applying on-hit effects cannot critically strike unless otherwise stated.
•  Life steal is not an on-hit effect. Damage from on-hit effects normally does not apply life steal, unless those effects deal basic damage or are special-cased to benefit from life steal.

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The ability counterpart to on-hit effects are ability effects, which apply on instances of ability damage.

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Magic damage

• Applies:
  • Bloodletter's Curse's Vile Decay
  • Morellonomicon's and Oblivion Orb's Grievous Wounds
  • Omnivamp
• Triggers:
  • Hexdrinker's and Maw of Malmortius' Lifeline
• Mitigated by:
  • Damage shields
  • Invulnerability
  • Damage reduction
  •  Magic resistance
  • Magic shields

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Immobilize

Immobilized units cannot control their movement. The following crowd control effects immobilize the unit:

• Airborne
• Forced Action ( Berserk, Charm, Flee, Taunt)
• Root
• Sleep
• Stasis
• Stun ( Suspension)
• Suppression

Impaired movement is a similar term that, in addition to the above, also refers to units that are slowed.

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Cc-Immune

Crowd control immunity prevents any type of crowd control from being applied to the unit. CC which has already been applied will still have an effect on the unit. Epic monsters (excluding a summoned Rift Herald) and turrets are always immune to all crowd control, with the exception of stasis.

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Displacement immune

A unit that is displacement immune is immune to all Airborne effects in addition to the following effects:

• Crowd control
  • Knockdown
  • Suspension
  • Kinematics
  • Sleep
  • Stasis
• Champion abilities
  • Ambessa's Public Execution
  • Mordekaiser's Realm of Death
  • Skarner's Ixtal's Impact and Impale
  • Sett's The Show Stopper
  • Tahm Kench's Devour

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Riposte

COOLDOWN: 24 / 22 / 20 / 18 / 16

Active: Fiora briefly parries all incoming damage, debuffs, and disables, then stabs in a direction, dealing magic damage to enemies hit.

The stab slows the first enemy champion hit, or stuns them if Fiora parried an immobilizing effect.

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Suspension

A unit that is suspended is stunned for the duration. It also pretends to be airborne while the stun holds ( Last Breath can be cast on a suspended enemy). A unit that is stunned is unable to control its movement, declare attacks, cast abilities, activate items or use the summoner spells Flash, Teleport, Hexflash, and Mark / Dash for the duration.
Suspension is an immobilizing effect.

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Unlike common stuns, suspension is prevented by effects that prevent displacements and becoming suspended also interrupts the ongoing movement of dashes and airborne effects. Like common stuns, it is affected by Tenacity and can be fully removed by cleansing effects.

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Interrupts:	Interrupts attack windups (excluding uncancellable windups) and all channeled and charged abilities and all dashes and airborne effects (displacement and status effects). Knock ups will not have their airborne status removed if there is no sourced debuff, but their forced movement still ends.
Reduction:	The duration is affected by Tenacity.
Resist:	Resisted by crowd control immunity, displacement immunity, and Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases.
Removal:	Fully removed by Cleanses.

Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.

• The crowd control effect may still be cleansed if it is applied as a debuff separate from the originated ability.

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Spell shield

A spell shield refers to one of several effects that have the capacity to negate hostile abilities from applying to the recipient. A spell shield may negate many active effects coming from champion abilities, epic monsters, champion summoned units, and items, but almost none from runes and summoner spells with the only exceptions of Arcane Comet, Unleashed Smite, and Primal Smite which will be blocked.

• See the article for more details.

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Dodge

Dodging an instance of damage will skip its damage event entirely, preventing it from being taken and effects that trigger from damage. Dodge takes precedence over block, but not blind.

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Effects that dodge damage will only dodge instances that are dodgeable. Note that these are specified in the ability details on the Wiki.

Basic attacks and abilities that apply on-hit effects are always dodged, unless otherwise stated.

This effect is exclusive to Jax's Counter Strike and Nilah's Jubilant Veil.

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Block

Blocking an instance of damage will reduce its value to 0, but does not prevent effects that trigger from damage. Blind and dodge take precedence over block.

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Effects that block damage will only block instances that are blockable. Note that these are specified in the ability details on the Wiki.

Basic attacks and abilities that apply on-hit effects are always blocked, unless otherwise stated.

This effect is exclusive to Shen's Spirit's Refuge and is similar though mechanically different to Dodge.

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Blind

A unit that is blinded will miss their basic attacks for the duration, comparable to attacking a target that is able to dodge or block, but not mechanically similar. Missed basic attacks will fail to deal damage and apply on-hit effects, with the exception of some empowered basic attacks. Blind does not prevent the unit from declaring attacks, unlike Disarm.

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Interrupts:	Does not interrupt any actions, but will prevent on-hit effects from being triggered by basic attacks.
Reduction:	The duration is affected by Tenacity.
Resist:	Resisted by crowd control immunity.
Removal:	Removed by Cleanses with the exception of Mikael's Blessing.