Briar vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Briar
based on 7,036 Briar vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Briar
Advice to Win Against Zyra
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Briar vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Briar in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some vital Briar vs. Zyra matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Briar normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they takes more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Briar and Zyra
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Who is Better, Briar or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Briar usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Briar does have a lower win rate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Briar into Zyra.
Additionally, Briar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Briar is a somewhat poor counter for Zyra. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Briar against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Briar to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Zyra. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Briar versus Zyra build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Briar included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when facing Zyra than with many other common builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Zyra as Briar, Briar players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Briar vs Zyra fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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