Veigar vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Veigar
based on 6,130 Veigar vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Briar
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Veigar vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Veigar vs. Briar matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Briar..
Veigar often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Briar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Briar
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Who is Better, Veigar or Briar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when taking on Briar, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes an ok counter to Briar.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate compared to Briar, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Briaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar 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 allies during teamfights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Briar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Veigar to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often gets much more CS relative to Briar. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Veigar versus Briar build include Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Briar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 49.5% battling Briar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Briar as Veigar, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Veigar vs Briar counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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