Lee Sin vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Lee Sin
based on 4,826 Lee Sin vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Briar Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Briar as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Briar
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Lee Sin vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Lee Sin in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Lee Sin versus Briar counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Briar..
Lee Sin usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Briar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Briar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Briar, with a 45.3% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Briar.
While Lee Sin does have a much lower win rate than Briar, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Lee Sin into Briar.
Furthermore, Lee Sin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin 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 teamfights.
Lee Sin is a garbage counter for Briar. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Briar. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Lee Sin versus Briar build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Briar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 45.3% when countering Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Briar as Lee Sin, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Lee Sin vs Briar counters, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.3% winrate overall.
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