The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Volibear versus Briar matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
Volibear normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Briar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Volibear usually loses when trying to fight Briar, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Volibear makes a poor counter for Briar.
While Volibear does have a lower win rate compared to Briar, when they face off with one another, Volibear also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Volibear into Briar.
Moreover, Volibear 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Volibear is a trash counter to Briar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Volibear against Briar.
To learn all of the intricacies of Volibear to counter Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear on average accumulates much more CS compared to Briar. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Volibear versus Briar build include Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Hullbreaker. When Volibear used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Briar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Briar as Volibear, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Volibear vs Briar fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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