Alistar with Briar
How to Synergize Alistar and Briar
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Alistar Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Briar
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Briar
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Alistar Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Briar helps Alistar perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Briar, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Briar does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Briar on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Briar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Alistar that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Briar is a decent ally for Alistar. By being on the same team as Alistar, they raises their win rate by 1.6% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Alistar and Briar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Briar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Alistar and Briar together, you may not be giving your team enough AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Alistar and Briar synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Briar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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