Briar vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Briar
based on 6,129 Briar vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Briar
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Briar vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some influential Briar against Garen counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Garen. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in deaths.
Briar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Garen
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Who is Better, Briar or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Briar usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 53.5% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes a great counter for Garen.
While Briar does have a higher win rate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Briar into Garen.
Additionally, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Garen matchups, Briar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Briar is a great counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Briar against Garen.
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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 Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar typically gets a lot less CS as Garen. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Briar versus Garen build include Guardian Angel, Sundered Sky, and The Collector. When Briar used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 53.5% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Garen as Briar, you should use 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 builds players picked for Briar vs Garen clashes, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Garen as Briar are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.