K'Sante vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as K'Sante
based on 2,444 K'Sante vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Briar Counter Build
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Core K'Sante Items
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Guide to Countering Briar as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Briar
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
K'Sante vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several strategic K'Sante against Briar counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
K'Sante often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. Typically, they receives less damage than Briar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Briar
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Briar?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Briar, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Briar.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Briar, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Briaras their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante also has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter to Briar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante in order to counter Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante typically racks up much more CS as Briar. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Briar build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Briar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Briar with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Briar as K'Sante, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for K'Sante vs Briar LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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