The stat comparisons shown here feature several important Briar against Samira matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Samira..
Briar usually has a similar longest killing spree as their enemy does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Samira. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually wins when facing off against Samira, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a good counter to Samira.
While Briar does have a higher winrate than Samira, when facing one another, Briar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Briar into Samira.
Furthermore, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Samira matchups, Briar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Briar is an above average counter for Samira. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Samira.
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to counter Samira during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Samira. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Briar versus Samira build include Schutzengel, Youmus Geistklinge, and Gespaltener Himmel. When Briar combined at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better against Samira than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing against Samira with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Samira as Briar, you should take the Klingenhagel, Plötzlicher Einschlag, Argus' Vermächtnis, Schatzjäger, Kosmische Einsicht, and Magisches Schuhwerk runes from the Dominanz and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Briar vs Samira face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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