The stat comparisons shown on this page show several valuable Zeri versus Briar matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Briar..
Zeri often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Briar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when taking on Briar, with a 43.2% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a bad counter for Briar.
While Zeri does have a much lower winrate than Briar, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zeri into Briar.
Furthermore, Zeri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zeri is a bad counter for Briar. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zeri against Briar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zeri in order to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri most often gets much more CS relative to Briar. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zeri versus Briar build include Runaans Wirbelsturm, Sturmschneide, and Hastklingen der Navori. When Zeri used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better versus Briar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zeri boasted an average winrate of 43.2% battling Briar with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Briar as Zeri, you should use the Tödliches Tempo, Triumph, Legende: Eifer, Letztes Gefecht, Konditionierung, and Zuwachs runes from the Präzision and Entschlossenheit rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Zeri vs Briar face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.2% winrate overall.
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