Briar vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Briar
based on 6,337 Briar vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Briar
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Briar vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Briar in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Briar vs. Swain counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Briar normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they receives more damage than Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Swain
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Who is Better, Briar or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually fairs equally well when taking on Swain, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Briar does have a higher win rate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Briar into Swain.
Additionally, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Swain matchups, Briar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Briar is a decent counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your tactics 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 Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Briar to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar typically picks up less CS as Swain. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need 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 best items to prioritize in your Briar versus Swain build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Briar used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Swain than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 50.4% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Swain as Briar, Briar players should take 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 runes players chose for Briar vs Swain counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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