Briar vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Briar
based on 6,816 Briar vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Briar
Advice to Win Against Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Briar vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Briar in LoL
The stats shown here feature several critical Briar against Maokai counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in killsdeaths.
Briar normally has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. On average, they receives more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Maokai
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Who is Better, Briar or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Briar does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Briar also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Briar into Maokai.
Additionally, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often 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 Briar vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Briar is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on 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.
Briar typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Briar versus Maokai build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Maw of Malmortius. When Briar included at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs. Maokai than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 48.2% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Briar, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Briar vs Maokai clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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