Briar vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Briar
based on 6,622 Briar vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Briar
Advice to Win Against Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Briar vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Briar in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Briar vs. Varus matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Varus..
Briar usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Varus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Varus
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Who is Better, Briar or Varus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when playing against Varus, with a 53.8% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a great counter to Varus.
While Briar does have a higher winrate than Varus, when facing one another, Briar also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Varus.
Moreover, Briar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Varus matchups, Briar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Briar is a great counter to Varus. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Briar in order to counter Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar often picks up a lot less CS as Varus. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Briar versus Varus build include Experimental Hexplate, Sundered Sky, and The Collector. When Briar incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better versus Varus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 53.8% when playing against Varus with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Varus 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Briar vs Varus counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.8% winrate overall.
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