The stats provided here underscore several critical Nilah against Briar counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Briar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
Nilah often has a similar longest killing spree as their matchup does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Briar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when trying to fight Briar, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes a good counter for Briar.
While Nilah does have a higher win rate than Briar, when on opposite teams, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Nilah into Briaras their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nilah also has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Briar matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nilah is a good counter to Briar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nilah against Briar.
If you would like to truly master Nilah to counter Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah most often picks up much more CS as Briar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nilah versus Briar build consist of Lord Dominiks Grüße, Blutdürster, and Der Sammler. When Nilah combined at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better versus Briar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nilah had an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Briar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Briar as Nilah, Nilah players should equip the Eroberer, Triumph, Legende: Blutdurst, Letztes Gefecht, Plötzlicher Einschlag, and Schatzjäger runes from the Präzision and Dominanz rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Nilah vs Briar face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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