Briar vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Briar
based on 6,124 Briar vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Briar
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Briar vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Briar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some significant Briar against Leona matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Briar usually has a much larger longest kill spree than their foe does. On average, they receives more damage than Leona. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Leona
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Who is Better, Briar or Leona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Briar does have a lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Briar into Leona.
Moreover, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Briar is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Briar against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Briar to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Briar versus Leona build include Guardian Angel, Death's Dance, and The Collector. When Briar incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when facing Leona than with most other common item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Leona 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Briar vs Leona matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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