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How to Win Briar vs Maokai Counter MatchupBriar is in the a tier of champions

Briar vs Maokai

How to Beat Maokai as Briar in LoLBriar is in the s tier of champions
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How to Beat Maokai as Briar

based on 6,816 Briar vs Maokai matchups
Win Rate
48.2 %
K/D/A
2.01
Pick Rate
4 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We at MOBA Champion summarize millions of ranked LoL matches every week. Within our dataset, Briar engaged Maokai 6816 times. Using so many matchups for Briar vs Maokai gives us faith in our capacity to provide useful statistics and a supported build to obliterate Maokai. This particular pairing is fairly uncommon. Briar is forced to battle against Maokai in only 4.0% of their rounds.

Briar vs Maokai Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Briar does a below average job of beating Maokai. Normally, they wins a lowly 48.2% of games the champions clash against one another in. In Briar vs Maokai matches, Briar’s side is 0.0% more probable to get first blood, indicating that they most likely will get first blood against Maokai.

Best Briar vs Maokai Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Mosstomper SeedlingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeSerrated Dirk

Core Briar Items

~22 Mins
Lord Dominik's RegardsYoumuu's GhostbladeMaw of Malmortius

Optional Items

Guardian AngelHubrisOpportunityVoltaic Cyclosword

Summoner Spells

summonerhaste summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Briar to level upw
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Second ability for Briar to level upq
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Last skill for Briar to max oute

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
InspirationMagical FootwearCosmic Insight
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Briar's passive ability p
Briar's q ability q
Briar's w ability w
Briar's e ability e
Briar's ultimate ability r
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W
2
E
3
Q
4
W
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W
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R
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Briar

Advice to Win Against Maokai

The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.

Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.

Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.

Briar vs Maokai Counter Stats

Briar Image
Win Rate
48.2 %
VS
Win Rate
51.8 %
Maokai Image
8.8
< Kills >
2.9
7.9
< Deaths >
5.9
7.1
< Assists >
13.3
2.03
< Killing Sprees >
0.61
38
< Minions Killed >
48
1.36
< Dragons Killed >
0.28
0.3
< Inhibitors >
0.45
18,457
< Physical Damage >
1,707
3,645
< Magic Damage >
11,149
1,045
< True Damage >
1,025
23,148
< Damage Dealt >
13,882
36,009
< Damage Taken >
29,238
12,513
< Gold Earned >
9,345
1.03
< Towers >
1.44
0.3
< Baron Takedowns >
0.07
30,145
< Total Healing >
9,204
13,692
< Experience >
11,490
19
< Vision Score >
46
6
< Wards Placed >
19
260
< Time Dealing CC >
422

How to Counter Maokai with Briar in LoL

The stats shown here feature several critical Briar against Maokai counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in killsdeaths.

Briar normally has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. On average, they receives more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Briar and Maokai

Damage Types Compared

Briar
Maokai
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Briar
Maokai

Who is Better, Briar or Maokai?

Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a bad counter to Maokai.

While Briar does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Briar also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Briar into Maokai.

Additionally, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.

Briar is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Maokai.

Additional Information for Briar Players

How We Calculated Our Briar vs Maokai Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Maokai as Briar, we analyzed 6,816 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Maokai as Briar comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Briar typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.

The most crucial items to focus on in your Briar versus Maokai build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Maw of Malmortius. When Briar included at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs. Maokai than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 48.2% when countering Maokai with this build.

To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Briar, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Briar vs Maokai clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.

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