Briar vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Briar
based on 4,697 Briar vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Briar
Advice to Win Against Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Briar vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Briar in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Briar versus Rakan matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in killsdeaths.
Briar typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. On average, they takes more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Rakan
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Who is Better, Briar or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually fairs equally well when taking on Rakan, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Briar makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Briar does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Briar also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Briar into Rakan.
Moreover, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Briar is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Briar in order to counter Rakan 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Briar versus Rakan build consist of Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Briar bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Rakan as Briar, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Briar vs Rakan battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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