Irelia vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Irelia
based on 4,376 Irelia vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Briar
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Irelia vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here show several critical Irelia versus Briar counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Briar..
Irelia typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Briar. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Briar
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Who is Better, Irelia or Briar?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually loses when trying to fight Briar, with a 46.7% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a bad counter for Briar.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Briar, when facing one another, Irelia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Irelia into Briar.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia 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 allies during teamfights.
Irelia is a terribly counter to Briar. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to counter Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often picks up much more CS compared to Briar. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Irelia versus Briar build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Briar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when playing against Briar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Briar as Irelia, Irelia players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Irelia vs Briar matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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