Hwei vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Hwei
based on 7,932 Hwei vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Briar
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Hwei vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Hwei in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some influential Hwei vs. Briar counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
Hwei normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives less damage than Briar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hwei and Briar
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Who is Better, Hwei or Briar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when playing against Briar, with a 43.9% win rate. As a result, Hwei makes a bad counter to Briar.
While Hwei does have a much lower win rate compared to Briar, when they face off with one another, Hwei also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Briaras their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Hwei has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Hwei is a terribly counter to Briar. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei to counter Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei often accumulates much more CS as Briar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Hwei versus Briar build consist of Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when facing Briar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 43.9% battling Briar with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Briar as Hwei, Hwei players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Hwei vs Briar clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.9% win rate overall.
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