Briar vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Briar
based on 2,227 Briar vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Briar
Advice to Win Against Jarvan IV
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Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Briar vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Briar in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several vital Briar versus Jarvan IV counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Jarvan IV. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Briar often has a much larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Jarvan IV. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Briar or Jarvan IV?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually wins when playing against Jarvan IV, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a good counter to Jarvan IV.
While Briar does have a higher winrate compared to Jarvan IV, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Jarvan IV.
Furthermore, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Jarvan IV 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 late stage team fights.
Briar is an above average counter to Jarvan IV. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Briar against Jarvan IV.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Briar to counter Jarvan IV during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Jarvan IV. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Briar versus Jarvan IV build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Sundered Sky, and The Collector. When Briar incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better against Jarvan IV than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Jarvan IV with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Jarvan IV as Briar, you should use 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 rune sets that we analyzed for Briar vs Jarvan IV matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
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