Swain vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Swain
based on 6,337 Swain vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Briar
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Swain vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several valuable Swain vs. Briar counter stats that can help you understand the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Briar..
Swain typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Briar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Briar
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Who is Better, Swain or Briar?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Briar, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Swain makes an ok counter to Briar.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Briar, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Briaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Briar. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically accumulates more CS as Briar. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Swain versus Briar build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Briar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 49.6% battling Briar with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Briar as Swain, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Swain vs Briar matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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