Briar vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Briar
based on 3,979 Briar vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Briar
Advice to Win Against Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Briar vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Briar against Nunu & Willump matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between the pair. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Briar often has a much larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Nunu & Willump. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Briar or Nunu & Willump?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when trying to fight Nunu & Willump, with a 55.7% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a fantastic counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Briar does have a much higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Nunu & Willump 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Briar is a great counter for Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Briar against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Briar to counter Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar usually gets a similar amount of CS as Nunu & Willump. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Briar versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Briar included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better countering Nunu & Willump than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 55.7% battling Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Nunu & Willump 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 builds players picked for Briar vs Nunu & Willump battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.7% winrate overall.
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