The stat comparisons shown here highlight some significant Yuumi vs. Briar counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Briar. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Yuumi typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Briar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Briar, with a 40.1% win rate. Thus, Yuumi makes a bad counter for Briar.
While Yuumi does have a much lower winrate compared to Briar, when facing one another, Yuumi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Briar.
Furthermore, Yuumi also has a lot 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Yuumi is a terribly counter for Briar. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Yuumi against Briar.
To truly master Yuumi in order to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi typically racks up less CS as Briar. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Yuumi versus Briar build include Befreiungsschlag, Thymiaterion, and Mondstein-Erneuerer. When Yuumi included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Briar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Yuumi had an average winrate of 40.1% when playing against Briar with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Briar as Yuumi, you should use the Benefee-Beschwörung, Manafluss, Überlegenheit, Hitzewelle, Lebensquelle, and Frische runes from the Zauberei and Entschlossenheit rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Yuumi vs Briar counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 40.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Briar as Yuumi are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.