Briar vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Briar
based on 2,735 Briar vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Briar
Advice to Win Against Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Briar vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Briar against Gragas counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Gragas..
Briar typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Gragas
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Who is Better, Briar or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a great counter to Gragas.
While Briar does have a much higher winrate than Gragas, when facing one another, Briar also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Gragas.
Moreover, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Gragas matchups, Briar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Briar is a great counter for Gragas. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Briar against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to counter Gragas 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar usually racks up less CS relative to Gragas. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Briar versus Gragas build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Briar bought at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better vs Gragas than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 54.1% battling Gragas with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Gragas as Briar, Briar players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Briar vs Gragas clashes, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.1% winrate overall.
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