Briar vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Briar
based on 4,459 Briar vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Briar
Advice to Win Against Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Briar vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some influential Briar vs. Karma counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Briar often has a much larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Typically, they receives more damage than Karma. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show 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 Karma
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Who is Better, Briar or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually wins when facing off against Karma, with a 54.0% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes a great counter to Karma.
While Briar does have a much higher win rate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Karma.
Additionally, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Karma matchups, Briar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Briar is a great counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Briar to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar often racks up less CS relative to Karma. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Briar versus Karma build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, The Collector, and Profane Hydra. When Briar bought at least these three items in their build, they did much better when facing Karma than with most other common item sets. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 54.0% when countering Karma with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Karma as Briar, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Briar vs Karma battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Karma as Briar are given for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.