Briar vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Briar
based on 2,375 Briar vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Briar
Advice to Win Against Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Briar vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Briar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some significant Briar against Viktor matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Viktor..
Briar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Viktor. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Viktor
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Who is Better, Briar or Viktor?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Viktor, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Briar makes an ok counter for Viktor.
While Briar does have a lower winrate compared to Viktor, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Briar into Viktor.
Moreover, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viktor. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Viktor matchups, Viktor 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 for Viktor. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Briar against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to counter Viktor during both the laning 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 shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often gets a lot less CS relative to Viktor. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Briar versus Viktor build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Briar combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better when facing Viktor than with many other common item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Viktor with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Viktor as Briar, you should equip 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 used for Briar vs Viktor fights, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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