Xayah vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Xayah
based on 2,519 Xayah vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Briar
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Xayah vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Xayah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Xayah versus Briar counter stats that can help you grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Briar..
Xayah often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Briar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Briar
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Who is Better, Xayah or Briar?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when playing against Briar, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Xayah makes a bad counter for Briar.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate compared to Briar, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Xayah into Briar.
Additionally, Xayah also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah 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 team fights.
Xayah is a bad counter to Briar. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah on average accumulates much more CS compared to Briar. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Xayah versus Briar build include Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Briar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when playing against Briar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Briar as Xayah, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Xayah vs Briar counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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