Tower of Fantasy’s Samir has quickly earned a spot as a fan favourite among the community. Her gorgeous, elegant design belies a sharpshooting gunslinger with deadly aim and an even more deadly sense of humour, which has charmed many of the citizens of Asperia and beyond.
If you want to get Samir and her OP volt weapons, the Dual EM Stars, on your side, you’re in the right place. Our Tower of Fantasy Samir build guide goes in-depth about her skills and attacks, best matrices, upgrade materials, weapon stats, and advancement, as well as going into her banner, voice actor, and best team comps. With our help, you’ll be able to harness the power of lightning and dispatch enemies with your electrifying moves in no time.
For more help ensuring your arsenal is in tip top shape, check out our Tower of Fantasy weapons guide and Tower of Fantasy tier list. We’ve also got other guides just like this one, including our Tower of Fantasy Nemesis build, along with a list of all new Tower of Fantasy codes.
Tower of Fantasy Samir
Who is Tower of Fantasy’s Samir?
Tower of Fantasy’s Samir is the top gunslinger in the land, even among the elite Executors. However, beneath all of that, she’s a laid-back and free-spirited gal at heart, and is known to be a bit of a wildcard, especially due to her penchant for jokes and playing pranks on others.
Samir is an SSR Simulacra who wields two volt pistols called Dual EM Stars. She’s a powerful DPS who excels at both ranged and close-quarters combat, and her highly mobile moveset makes her a formidable opponent to anyone who crosses her path.
Tower of Fantasy Samir banner
Samir is one of the SSR Simulacra currently available on all weapon banners. This means that you can pull her on the standard Weapons Galore banners using gold or black nucleus, and you also have a chance of getting her from the limited banner with red nucleus if you don’t pull the featured weapon. Samir isn’t classed as a limited Simulacra, so, luckily, it doesn’t look like she’s leaving the banners any time soon.
To find out more about drop rates, currencies, and current and upcoming limited banners, check out our Tower of Fantasy banners guide.
What’s the best Tower of Fantasy Samir build?
Samir’s Dual EM Stars is a high DPS weapon that can land a large number of hits with all attacks due to its rapid, wide-spread shots. As such, she makes for a brilliant burst DPS who deals a heap of damage over a short period of time. Dual EM Stars lacks some punch when it comes to shield breaking due to a mediocre shatter score, but the strong charge rate and high attack more than makes up for it.
Samir’s fast firing combos, powerful spinning aerial attacks, and handy AoE skills makes her an asset in close-quarters combat, capable of taking down crowds of enemies with ease. To make this even better, the more enemies there are surrounding her, the greater her damage increases. But, if you need to take a step back from the frenzied, lightning-fast action, you can also use Dual EM Stars as a ranged weapon by holding normal attack. This launches you into a constant-fire aiming mode, which is great for taking down flying enemies or spicy bosses that are a bit too dangerous to approach.
All of this makes Samir and her weapon, Dual EM Stars, a powerful choice for a DPS role, offering brilliant burst damage and flexibility.
Tower of Fantasy Samir weapon stats
Below, we’ve listed all the main stats for Samir’s weapon, Dual EM Stars. These are the weapon’s base stats before you level it up or equip it with any matrices.
The shatter ranking dictates how quickly Dual EM Stars can break enemy shields, whereas the charge rate shows how quickly the weapon gains charge.
- CS: 272
- Shatter: 6.00 (B)
- Charge: 10.70 (S)
- Attack: 18
- HP: 1165
- Crit: 14
- Type: Volt – when your weapon is fully charged, your next attack paralyses targets for one second and electrifies them for six seconds, negating all buffs and dealing damage equal to 144.00% percentage of attack. Targets can’t receive any buffs for the next six seconds
Tower of Fantasy Samir attacks and skills
Here are each of Tower of Fantasy Samir’s skills and attacks. Note that this is based on Dual EM Stars’ level one stats, and the stats and buffs increase as you level up the weapon.
Normal attacks
| Skill | Effect |
| Normal attack – dual fire | While on the ground, tap normal attack up to five times in a row. First attack: deal total damage equal to 47.1% of attack +74 Second attack: deal total damage equal to 35.8% of attack +56 Third attack: deal total damage equal to 119.7% of attack +188 Fourth attack: deal total damage equal to 113.1% of attack +178 Fifth attack: deal total damage equal to 154% of attack +242 and launch the target |
| Aerial discharge – bullet rain | While airborne, tap normal attack to fire continuously at the ground, dealing damage equal to 50.6% of attack +79. Each hit consumes 220 endurance |
| Energy burst (hold attack) | Hold normal attack to aim and maintain constant fire, with each hit dealing 23% of attack +36 |
| Phantom kick (aerial + hold attack) | While airborne, tap and hold normal attack to trigger phantom kick. Knock the target down and deal damage equal to 70.5% of attack +111. Upon landing, deal damage equal to 98.7% of attack +155 to nearby targets and launch them |
Dodge attacks
| Skill | Effect |
| Electro field | Tap normal attack after dodging to strongly suspend targets and deal damage equal to 122.6% of attack +193 |
| Dodge | Dodge right before getting hit to trigger a Phantasia, reducing the speed of enemies within an area. Also become immune to hitstun for 0.5 seconds while dodging. |
Skill
| Skill | Effect | Cooldown |
| Electro field | Fire an energy shield at the target location, reflecting beams within the barrier, dealing damage equal to 269.8% of attack +424. Strongly suspends targets with the last hit | 45 seconds |
Discharge skill
| Skill | Effect |
| Domain of thunder | When weapon charge is full or you trigger Phantasia, switch to Dual EM Stars to remove all debuffs from the wielder, and create a Domain of Thunder at the target location, which strongly suspends targets within the area, dealing a total of 238.3% of attack +374 damage over three attacks to them and dispelling their buffs. The domain lasts for 3.5 seconds and deals damage equal to 42.4% of attack +67 to a target every 0.5 seconds |
Tower of Fantasy Samir advancement
You can advance Tower of Fantasy weapons by using their corresponding fusion cores, which you get by acquiring more than one copy of a character. After you’ve got yourself one copy of Samir and her Dual EM Stars, you can purchase another copy through the Commissary’s weapon store for 120 black gold. Alternatively, you can get a duplicate of Samir by pulling on the banner, but, of course, this is entirely up to RNG.
Advancing your weapons by spending fusion cores and gold unlocks special bonuses. Here are all of the bonuses you gain from unlocking each of Samir’s advancement stars.
- One star: trigger an electrical explosion on the target after landing a critical hit, dealing additional damage equal to 30% of attack to the target and nearby enemies. Cooldown is 0.2 seconds
- Two stars: increases the weapon’s base attack growth by 16%
- Three stars: increases crit rate to electrified targets by 40%. Electrical explosions extend the duration of electrified effects by 0.5 seconds, up to a maximum of five seconds
- Four stars: increases the weapon’s base attack growth by 32%
- Five stars: doubles the duration of your electro field and pulls targets into the centre of the attack
- Six stars: triggering an electrical explosion reduces skill cooldowns by one second
You also gain a special skin for Samir at three stars, as seen in the picture above.
What’s the best Tower of Fantasy Samir matrix set?
As with all SR and SSR Simulacra, Samir has her own matrix set designed around her kit, and, as such, this is always the best choice for her if you can get hold of it. You can pull it through the standard and limited matrix banners. You also have a small chance to get it from world boss chests, or you can purchase it through the Commissary’s matrix store in exchange for base chips.
If you’ve yet to get your hands on Samir’s matrix set, the Sobek set is also a handy choice for her, as it further buffs her damage when surrounded by multiple enemies. Or, if you’re looking for something super basic to tide you over, you can go with the R-rank set standard operation, as it buffs Samir’s volt damage.
To find out more about different matrix sets and where to get them, check out our Tower of Fantasy matrices guide.
| ToF matrix set | Rarity | Effect |
| Samir | SSR | Two equipped: increases your damage progressively by 1% upon hitting a target. Stack up to 10/13/16/20 times. Lasts 1.5 seconds Four equipped: increase Dual EM Stars’ electrical explosion damage by 16%/22%/30%/40% of attack |
| Swamp Shadow: Sobek | SR | Three equipped: increases damage dealt by 6%/7.5%/9% for each enemy nearby. Up to three stacks |
| Standard operation | R | Three equipped: increases damage dealt by volt weapons by 6% |
Tower of Fantasy Samir upgrade materials
If you want to upgrade Tower of Fantasy Samir’s weapon, Dual EM Stars, you’ll need the following items. Check out our Tower of Fantasy map guide for more help finding what you need.
| Rank | Level | Gold | Materials |
| One | Ten | 400 | Two magcore |
| Two | 20 | 800 | Two magcore |
| Three | 30 | 1,200 | Three magcore, one nano coating I |
| Four | 40 | 1,600 | Three magcore, one nano coating I, three booster frame I |
| Five | 50 | 2000 | Four magcore, four nano coating I, four booster frame I |
| Six | 60 | 2,400 | Six magcore, six nano coating I, six booster frame I |
Tower of Fantasy Samir team comps
Samir best suits the main DPS role, so, when picking weapons to synergise with Dual EM Stars, their main focus should be boosting and supporting. Due to Samir’s low shatter rank, teaming her up with a strong shield breaker like King or Echo is a great idea. Pairing her with either King or Echo also provides you with the attack resonance buff, increasing your final damage.
Tower of Fantasy Nemesis’ weapon, Venus, also compliments Samir well due to its high healing and strong sub-DPS. Alternatively, you could fill the healer and utility spot with Zero’s Negating cube for heals and shields, or Cocoritter’s healing staff, with its high healing output and freeze application.
Tower of Fantasy Samir gifts
When shopping for gifts for Samir, remember that her favourite tags are games and toys. We’ve listed all her favourite gifts below, along with their rarity, the number of awakening points you get from giving them to her, and where to get them from. Head over to our Tower of Fantasy gifts guide to find out more.
| Gift | Rarity | Awakening points given | How to obtain |
| 3D Hykros puzzle | Purple | 60 | Special gift box |
| Banges specialty | Purple | 60 | Special gift box |
| Music box | Purple | 60 | Special gift box |
| New game console | Purple | 60 | Special gift box |
| Plush toy | Purple | 60 | Special gift box |
| Smarty doll | Purple | 60 | Special gift box |
| Cat throw pillow | Blue | 30 | Fine gift box |
| Chess set | Blue | 30 | Fine gift box |
| Coloring book | Blue | 30 | Fine gift box |
| Moonrabbit kit | Blue | 30 | Fine gift box |
| Custom poker deck | Green | 15 | Small gift box or from the item vendor in Banges |
| Paper Pinwheel | Green | 15 | Small gift box or from the item vendor in Banges |
Tower of Fantasy Samir awakening rewards
Giving Samir gifts earns you awakening points. When you hit certain awakening progress milestones you also unlock recollection rewards. Here are all of Tower of Fantasy Samir’s awakening rewards.
| Awakening points | Recollection reward |
| 200 | Samir avatar |
| 600 | Log: Dance Alone |
| 1,200 | Samir: Trickery trait – grants one stack of concentration for every four seconds when Samir receives no damage. Each stack increases damage dealt by 3%, and can stack up to four times. After being hit, Samir loses one stack of Concentration, up to one stack per second |
| 2,000 | Log: Resonance |
| 3,000 | Log: Concerto |
| 4,000 | Samir: Shadow trait – grants one stack of concentration for every four seconds when Samir receives no damage. Each stack increases damage dealt by 4%, and can stack up to five times. After being hit, Samir loses one stack of concentration, up to one stack per two seconds |
Who is Tower of Fantasy Samir’s voice actor?
ToF Samir’s English voice actor is Brittany Cox, who you may recognise as Genshin Impact’s Fischl, Ingrid from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, and Josie Jane from WWE 2k22 among many other notable roles.
Her Japanese voice actor, Nana Mizuki, has an equally impressive filmography. Her previous works include Persona 5 Ann, Tamarinne from Epic Seven, Fragile from Death Stranding, Cheelai from Dragon Ball, and Margaret from The Seven Deadly Sins.
That’s it for our Tower of Fantasy Samir build guide. To get familiar with the rest of the ToF crew, check out our Tower of Fantasy characters guide. Or, for more open world fun, take a look at our Genshin Impact tier list.