Catching Milio with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Milio.
Milio's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
The stats shown on this page underscore some strategic Briar versus Milio counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Milio’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Milio. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Briar normally has a much larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Milio. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when trying to fight Milio, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a good counter to Milio.
While Briar does have a higher winrate compared to Milio, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Briar into Milio.
Furthermore, Briar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Milio. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Milio matchups, Briar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Briar is a good counter for Milio. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Briar against Milio.
To truly master Briar in order to counter Milio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Milio. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Briar versus Milio build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Briar incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed much better against Milio than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 52.8% when playing against Milio with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Milio as Briar, you should use 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 sets players chose for Briar vs Milio battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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