Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Briar against Trundle matchup stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Trundle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Trundle. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Briar usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Trundle. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually loses when taking on Trundle, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a poor counter to Trundle.
While Briar does have a lower win rate compared to Trundle, when facing one another, Briar also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Briar into Trundle.
Moreover, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Trundle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champ 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 Trundle. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Trundle.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to counter Trundle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar usually gets a lot less CS as Trundle. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Briar versus Trundle build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Briar used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better vs Trundle than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 48.9% battling Trundle with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Trundle as Briar, Briar players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Briar vs Trundle clashes, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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