Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
The stats shown on this page feature several critical Ahri versus Briar counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Briar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
Ahri often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Briar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when playing against Briar, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a poor counter for Briar.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Briar, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Briar.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ahri is a garbage counter to Briar. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Briar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average picks up much more CS as Briar. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ahri versus Briar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Ahri combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Briar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 46.5% battling Briar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Briar as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Briar clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
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