All Samira’s Ultimate interactions in League of Legends

Samira is one of the newest ADCs in League of Legends; however, I often find myself asking the question: "Can I use my R while doing something." I decided to create a guide and analyze most of the possible interactions of Samira's Ultimate Ability during the standard League of Legends game.

Samira's Ultimate Basic Information

First of all, let's just set up some basics and information about how Samira's ultimate ability - Inferno Trigger works. It deals physical damage to enemies and scales with AD only. This ability can critically strike and also applies life steal at 66,6% effectiveness. It deals lower damage to minions and monsters. Players cannot use inferno Trigger unless Samira reaches the maximum stacks of her passive (six). She always gets a stack of her passive when she uses a distinct attack, either ability or auto-attack. You cannot stack it using one ability or attack in a row, for example, you can not get two stacks while using two AA one after another.

Samira's Ultimate Interactions

First interactions that allow you to continue shooting your ultimate while under the effect of these skills or items. What's interesting is it doesn't work with most of the items. You just cannot use them while shooting your ultimate, but you can use Hextech Protobelt. It is not very useful due to this item being AP.

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Works with:

• Samira's E - Wild Rush
• Using Summoner Spells (Excluding Teleport)
• Hextech Protobelt (Magic Damage Item)

Does NOT work with:

Items that will interrupt Inferno Trigger:

• Zhonya's Hourglass (Survivability Magic Item)
• Stopwatch (Zhonya's Component)
• Prowler's Crawl (Lethality Item)
• Galeforce (Critical Strike Item)
• Hextech Protobelt (Magic Damage Item)
• Everfrost (Magic Burst Item)
• Goredrinker (Sustain Bruiser Item)
• Stridebreaker (Mobility Bruiser Item)

Samira's Ultimate is a channeled ability, so it also gets interrupted by most hard CC. I will list the Crowd Control that interrupts Inferno Trigger and some examples of those effects:

• Knock Aside (Draven's E)
• Knock Back (Aurelion's R)
• Knock Up (Alistar's Q)
• Pull (Aatrox's W)
• Charm (Ahri's E)
• Fear (Shaco's W)
• Taunt (Galio's W)
• Silence (Cho Gath's W)
• Disrupt (Kassadin's Q)
• Drowsey/Sleep (Zoe's E)
• Stasis (Bard's R)
• Stun (Ashe's R)
• Suspension (Nami's Q)
• Suppression (Malzahar's R)
• Disarm (Lulu's W)

Other Crowd Control does not interrupt Samira's Ultimate, so root, for example, will not cancel his channel. Abilities like Spell Shield or items like Banshee only block one shot, so it does not impact as much. Other notable skills that will not cancel but block your ultimate ability are:

• Yasuo's W - Wind Wall (blocks untill placed)
• Braum's E - Unbreakable (only blocks first shot, then takes reduced damage)
• Gwen's W - Hollowed Mist (only Gwen in invulnerable)
• Pantheon's E - Aegis Assault (blocks for the shield's duration)
• Samira's W - Blade Whirl (blocks first couple of shots)
• Any invincibility like Tryndamere's R or Kayle's R

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