Briar vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Briar
based on 1,927 Briar vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Briar
Advice to Win Against Braum
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
Briar vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Briar in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some vital Briar versus Braum matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Braum. This observation is largely caused by the differences in killsdeaths.
Briar typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Braum. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Braum
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Who is Better, Briar or Braum?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually loses when trying to fight Braum, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes a poor counter for Braum.
While Briar does have a lower win rate than Braum, when facing one another, Briar also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Briar into Braum.
Furthermore, Briar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Briar is a bad counter for Braum. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Briar against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Braum. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Briar versus Braum build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Briar combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better countering Braum than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 47.5% battling Braum with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Braum as Briar, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Briar vs Braum counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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