The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Briar versus Fiddlesticks counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fiddlesticks’s ratio of NaN, showing that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Fiddlesticks. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Briar normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Fiddlesticks. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when taking on Fiddlesticks, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a great counter for Fiddlesticks.
While Briar does have a much higher win rate compared to Fiddlesticks, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Fiddlesticks.
Furthermore, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Briar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Briar is a great counter for Fiddlesticks. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Briar against Fiddlesticks.
If you would like to truly master Briar to counter Fiddlesticks during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Fiddlesticks. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Briar versus Fiddlesticks build include Youmus Geistklinge, Der Sammler, and Voltaisches Zykloschwert. When Briar bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when facing Fiddlesticks than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 54.1% when countering Fiddlesticks with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Fiddlesticks as Briar, you should use the Klingenhagel, Plötzlicher Einschlag, Argus' Vermächtnis, Schatzjäger, Magisches Schuhwerk, and Kosmische Einsicht runes from the Dominanz and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Briar vs Fiddlesticks counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.1% win rate overall.
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