Briar vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Briar
based on 6,902 Briar vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Briar
Advice to Win Against Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Briar vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Briar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Briar against Malphite matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malphite’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Malphite. This observation is largely a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Briar typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. On average, they receives more damage than Malphite. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Malphite
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Who is Better, Briar or Malphite?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually fairs equally well when taking on Malphite, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Briar makes an ok counter for Malphite.
While Briar does have a lower win rate compared to Malphite, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Briar into Malphite.
Additionally, Briar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Briar is a somewhat poor counter to Malphite. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to counter Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often accumulates a lot less CS as Malphite. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Briar versus Malphite build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Briar incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Malphite than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Malphite with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Malphite as Briar, Briar players 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 sets players picked for Briar vs Malphite clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
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