Briar vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Briar
based on 2,350 Briar vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Briar
Advice to Win Against Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Briar vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Briar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some influential Briar vs. Anivia counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Anivia. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in killsdeaths.
Briar typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Anivia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Anivia
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Who is Better, Briar or Anivia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually fairs equally well when taking on Anivia, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes an ok counter to Anivia.
While Briar does have a lower win rate than Anivia, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Briar into Anivia.
Furthermore, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Briar is a somewhat poor counter to Anivia. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Briar against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Briar in order to counter Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often picks up a lot less CS as Anivia. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Briar versus Anivia build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and The Collector. When Briar included at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better when facing Anivia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 49.9% battling Anivia with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Anivia as Briar, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Briar vs Anivia face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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