Riven vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Riven
based on 5,039 Riven vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Briar
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Riven vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Riven vs. Briar counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Briar..
Riven often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Briar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Briar
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Who is Better, Riven or Briar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when facing off against Briar, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a poor counter for Briar.
While Riven does have a lower win rate than Briar, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Riven into Briaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven 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 allied champions during team fights.
Riven is a trash counter for Briar. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Briar during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average racks up much more CS as Briar. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Riven versus Briar build include Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Briar than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when playing against Briar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Briar as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Riven vs Briar clashes, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
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