Annie with Briar
How to Synergize Annie and Briar
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Annie Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Briar
Tips for Playing as Annie with Briar
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Annie Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Briar helps Annie perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie tries to synergize with Briar, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Briar helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Briar on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Briar does a decent job of covering Annie during team fights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best companion for Annie that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, overall, Briar is a good teammate for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, they increases their win rate by 2.9% to 52.2%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Annie and Briar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when arranging Briar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Annie and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much engage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Annie to pair well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Annie and Briar synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Annie combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Briar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Briar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Briar with Annie are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.