Briar vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Briar
based on 2,519 Briar vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Briar
Advice to Win Against Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Briar vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some valuable Briar against Xayah matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Briar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Xayah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Xayah
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Who is Better, Briar or Xayah?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when trying to fight Xayah, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Briar makes a good counter to Xayah.
While Briar does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Briar into Xayah.
Moreover, Briar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Xayah matchups, Briar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Briar is a good counter for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Briar against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Briar to counter Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Xayah. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Briar versus Xayah build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Briar combined at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better vs Xayah than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 53.0% battling Xayah with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Xayah as Briar, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Briar vs Xayah LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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