The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Vex versus Briar counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Briar..
Vex often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives less damage than Briar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vex usually loses when facing off against Briar, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Vex makes a poor counter to Briar.
While Vex does have a lower win rate than Briar, when facing one another, Vex also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Vex into Briar.
Additionally, Vex has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Vex is a bad counter for Briar. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vex against Briar.
If you would like to truly master Vex to counter Briar during both the lane 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 here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex usually racks up much more CS compared to Briar. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Vex versus Briar build consist of Coiffe de Rabadon, Flamme-ombre, and Onde orageuse. When Vex incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Briar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vex boasted an average winrate of 47.1% battling Briar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Briar as Vex, Vex players should use the Moisson noire, Goût du sang, Arracheur d'œil, Chasseur ultime, Ruban de mana, and Transcendance runes from the Domination and Sorcellerie rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Vex vs Briar LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Briar as Vex are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.