The stats shown on this page show several strategic Volibear against Briar matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Briar..
Volibear typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Briar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Volibear usually loses when trying to fight Briar, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Volibear makes a poor counter for Briar.
While Volibear does have a lower winrate compared to Briar, when facing one another, Volibear also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Volibear into Briar.
Moreover, Volibear also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Volibear is a terribly counter for Briar. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Volibear against Briar.
To truly master Volibear to counter Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear typically racks up much more CS relative to Briar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Volibear versus Briar build include Geistessicht, Nashors Zahn, and Rumpfbrecher. When Volibear bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Briar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Volibear boasted an average winrate of 47.2% battling Briar with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Briar as Volibear, Volibear players should take the Tödliches Tempo, Triumph, Legende: Eifer, Letztes Gefecht, Abriss, and Frische runes from the Präzision and Entschlossenheit rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Volibear vs Briar fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Briar as Volibear are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.