If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some critical Briar against Urgot matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Urgot’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Urgot..
Briar typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Typically, they receives more damage than Urgot. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually fairs equally well when taking on Urgot, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Briar makes an ok counter for Urgot.
While Briar does have a lower winrate than Urgot, when facing one another, Briar also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Briar into Urgot.
Additionally, Briar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Urgot. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a similar 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 somewhat poor counter to Urgot. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Urgot.
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to counter Urgot during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow 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 compared to Urgot. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Briar versus Urgot build consist of Sterak's Gage, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Urgot than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 49.8% battling Urgot with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Urgot as Briar, you should take 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 Urgot fights, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Urgot as Briar are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.