Nidalee vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Nidalee
based on 1,158 Nidalee vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Briar
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Nidalee vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Nidalee against Briar matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Briar..
Nidalee often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Briar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Briar
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Briar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Briar, with a 43.1% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Briar.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Briar, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Briaras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nidalee is a bad counter to Briar. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Briar. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Briar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Briar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 43.1% battling Briar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Briar as Nidalee, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nidalee vs Briar face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.1% win rate overall.
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