Maokai vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Maokai
based on 6,816 Maokai vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Briar
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Maokai vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some critical Maokai versus Briar counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the two. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Briar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Briar
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Who is Better, Maokai or Briar?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when playing against Briar, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a good counter to Briar.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate than Briar, when facing one another, Maokai also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Maokai into Briar.
Moreover, Maokai has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Briar matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a decent counter for Briar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Briar. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Maokai versus Briar build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Briar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 51.8% battling Briar with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Briar as Maokai, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Maokai vs Briar fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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