Gnar vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Gnar
based on 1,798 Gnar vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Briar
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Gnar vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Gnar against Briar counter stats that can help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
Gnar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Briar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Briar
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Who is Better, Gnar or Briar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Briar, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter for Briar.
While Gnar does have a much lower winrate compared to Briar, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Gnar into Briaras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a trash counter to Briar. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Briar 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically picks up much more CS compared to Briar. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Gnar versus Briar build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Briar than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 45.8% battling Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Briar as Gnar, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Gnar vs Briar battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.8% winrate overall.
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