Bard with Briar
How to Synergize Bard and Briar
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Bard Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Briar
Tips for Playing as Bard with Briar
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Bard Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Briar helps Bard perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is an ally to Briar, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Briar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Briar on the same side, 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 Bard plays with Briar on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Briar?
There is no ideal companion for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Briar is a decent ally for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, they increases their win rate by 1.7% to 54.0%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Bard and Briar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Briar teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Bard and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your team very much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to pair well with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Bard and Briar synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Briar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 54.0% helping carry Briar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Bard and Briar pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.0% winrate overall.
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