Briar vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Briar
based on 3,800 Briar vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Briar
Advice to Win Against Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Briar vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Briar in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several valuable Briar against Soraka counter statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Briar typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Typically, they takes more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Soraka
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Who is Better, Briar or Soraka?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually wins when playing against Soraka, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes a great counter to Soraka.
While Briar does have a higher win rate than Soraka, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Briar into Soraka.
Furthermore, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Soraka matchups, Briar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Briar is a great counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Briar to counter Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Soraka. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Briar versus Soraka build consist of Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better versus Soraka than with many other common builds. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 53.2% battling Soraka with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Soraka 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Briar vs Soraka counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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