Akali with Briar
How to Synergize Akali and Briar
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Akali Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Briar
Tips for Playing as Akali with Briar
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Akali Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Akali in LoL
The Akali Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Briar helps Akali perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali tries to synergize with Briar, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Briar does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Briar on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best companion for Akali that will always be her top ally. However, overall, Briar is a decent ally for Akali. By playing on the same side as Akali, they improves their win rate by 2.4% to 51.5%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Akali and Briar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Briar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Akali players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Akali and Briar together, you may not be giving your team a lot of support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Briar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to pair well with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Akali and Briar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Akali incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Briar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 51.5% helping carry Briar with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Akali and Briar pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Briar with Akali are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.