Briar vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Briar
based on 2,688 Briar vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Briar
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Briar vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several significant Briar versus Alistar counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Briar normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they takes more damage than Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Alistar
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Who is Better, Briar or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when facing off against Alistar, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a good counter to Alistar.
While Briar does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Briar into Alistar.
Moreover, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Alistar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Briar is a decent counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Alistar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Briar versus Alistar build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Briar bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting Alistar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Alistar as Briar, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Briar vs Alistar counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.4% win rate overall.
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