Nasus vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Nasus
based on 5,085 Nasus vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Briar
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Nasus vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some vital Nasus vs. Briar counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Briar..
Nasus normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Briar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nasus or Briar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when playing against Briar, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes an ok counter to Briar.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate compared to Briar, when facing one another, Nasus also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Briar.
Additionally, Nasus also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter to Briar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically gets much more CS as Briar. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nasus versus Briar build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Briar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Briar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Briar as Nasus, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nasus vs Briar LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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