The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Samira vs. Briar matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Briar..
Samira usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Briar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when facing off against Briar, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a poor counter to Briar.
While Samira does have a lower winrate than Briar, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Samira into Briar.
Furthermore, Samira also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Samira is a trash counter for Briar. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Briar.
To truly master Samira to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira usually accumulates much more CS compared to Briar. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Samira versus Briar build consist of Schutzengel, Lord Dominiks Grüße, and Blutdürster. When Samira used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Briar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Briar with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Briar as Samira, Samira players should use the Eroberer, Triumph, Legende: Blutdurst, Letztes Gefecht, Argus' Vermächtnis, and Schatzjäger runes from the Präzision and Dominanz rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Samira vs Briar counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
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