The stat comparisons shown here highlight several vital Samira vs. Briar matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Briar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
Samira normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Briar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Samira usually loses when trying to fight Briar, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a bad counter to Briar.
While Samira does have a lower win rate than Briar, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Samira into Briar.
Additionally, Samira also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot 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 teamfights.
Samira is a terribly counter for Briar. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Samira against Briar.
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to counter Briar during both the laning 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 displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira most often picks up much more CS compared to Briar. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Samira versus Briar build include Anjo Guardião, Lembranças do Lorde Dominik, and Sedenta por Sangue. When Samira used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Briar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Samira had an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Briar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Briar as Samira, you should use the Conquistador, Triunfo, Lenda: Linhagem, Até a Morte, Globos Oculares, and Caçador de Tesouros runes from the Precisão and Dominação rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Samira vs Briar counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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