Briar vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Briar
based on 1,501 Briar vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Briar
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Briar vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Briar versus Kalista matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, showing that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Briar usually has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Typically, they receives more damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Kalista
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Who is Better, Briar or Kalista?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 53.8% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Briar does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, Briar also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Briar into Kalista.
Furthermore, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Kalista 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Briar is a great counter to Kalista. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Briar against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar often racks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Briar versus Kalista build consist of Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Briar incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed much better when fighting Kalista than with most other common builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when countering Kalista with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kalista as Briar, Briar players 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for Briar vs Kalista fights, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
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