Briar vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Briar
based on 2,386 Briar vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Briar
Advice to Win Against Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Briar vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Briar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some critical Briar vs. Ziggs matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Briar typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they takes more damage than Ziggs. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Briar or Ziggs?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually wins when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 54.1% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes a great counter for Ziggs.
While Briar does have a much higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when facing one another, Briar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Ziggs.
Additionally, Briar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Ziggs matchups, Briar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Briar is a great counter for Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Briar against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often gets a lot less CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Briar versus Ziggs build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Briar bought at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Ziggs than with most other common builds. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 54.1% when playing against Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Ziggs as Briar, you 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for Briar vs Ziggs LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.1% winrate overall.
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