Thresh vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Thresh
based on 6,387 Thresh vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Briar
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Thresh vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several valuable Thresh against Briar matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Briar. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Briar. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Briar
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Who is Better, Thresh or Briar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when playing against Briar, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a poor counter to Briar.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Briar, when facing one another, Thresh also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Briaras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a lot 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh 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 team fights.
Thresh is a trash counter to Briar. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Thresh to counter Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind 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.
Thresh typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Briar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Briar build consist of Thornmail, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Briar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 46.7% battling Briar with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Briar as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Thresh vs Briar fights, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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