Katarina vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Katarina
based on 6,046 Katarina vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Briar
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Katarina vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Katarina versus Briar matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
Katarina often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Briar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Briar
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Who is Better, Katarina or Briar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Briar, with a 45.6% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter for Briar.
While Katarina does have a much lower winrate than Briar, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Briaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Katarina is a trash counter for Briar. Focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Briar during both the laning 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often accumulates much more CS as Briar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Katarina versus Briar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Briar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 45.6% when playing against Briar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Briar as Katarina, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Briar matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.6% win rate overall.
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