Aphelios with Briar
How to Synergize Aphelios and Briar
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Aphelios Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Briar
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Briar
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Aphelios Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Briar helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Briar, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Briar does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Briar on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of covering Aphelios during teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Briar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Aphelios that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Briar is a decent companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, they increases their win rate by 2.2% to 50.8%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Aphelios and Briar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Briar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Aphelios players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Aphelios and Briar together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Briar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Aphelios and Briar synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Aphelios bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Briar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Aphelios and Briar pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
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