Nunu & Willump vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,979 Nunu & Willump vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Briar
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Nunu & Willump vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some important Nunu & Willump vs. Briar counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Briar. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Briar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Briar
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Briar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Briar, with a 44.3% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter to Briar.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower win rate than Briar, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Briar.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a garbage counter to Briar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen 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.
Nunu & Willump often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Briar. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Briar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Briar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 44.3% battling Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Briar as Nunu & Willump, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nunu & Willump vs Briar fights, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.3% winrate overall.
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