Briar vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Briar
based on 7,932 Briar vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Briar
Advice to Win Against Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Briar vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Briar in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Briar versus Hwei counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Hwei. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Briar often has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. On average, they takes more damage than Hwei. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Hwei
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Who is Better, Briar or Hwei?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when playing against Hwei, with a 56.1% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a fantastic counter to Hwei.
While Briar does have a much higher win rate than Hwei, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Hwei.
Moreover, Briar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Hwei 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 team fights.
Briar is a great counter to Hwei. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Briar against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to counter Hwei during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar often gets a lot less CS compared to Hwei. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Briar versus Hwei build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Briar included at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs Hwei than with most other common builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 56.1% battling Hwei with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Hwei as Briar, you should take 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 rune sets players used for Briar vs Hwei matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 56.1% winrate overall.
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