The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Yuumi against Briar matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Briar. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Briar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when taking on Briar, with a 40.1% win rate. As a result, Yuumi makes a poor counter for Briar.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate compared to Briar, when they face off with one another, Yuumi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yuumi into Briar.
Additionally, Yuumi also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This often 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 Yuumi vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yuumi is a trash counter for Briar. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Briar.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi in order to counter Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average accumulates less CS relative to Briar. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Yuumi versus Briar build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Briar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average winrate of 40.1% battling Briar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Briar as Yuumi, Yuumi players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Yuumi vs Briar clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 40.1% winrate overall.
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