Briar vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Briar
based on 1,860 Briar vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Briar
Advice to Win Against Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Briar vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Briar against Zilean counter statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in killsdeaths.
Briar usually has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they takes more damage than Zilean. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Zilean
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Who is Better, Briar or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually fairs equally well when playing against Zilean, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes an ok counter for Zilean.
While Briar does have a higher winrate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Briar into Zilean.
Moreover, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Zilean matchups, Briar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Briar is a decent counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Briar against Zilean.
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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 Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar usually gets less CS relative to Zilean. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Briar versus Zilean build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Briar incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better when facing Zilean than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 50.5% battling Zilean with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Zilean as Briar, Briar players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Briar vs Zilean fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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