Brand with Briar
How to Synergize Brand and Briar
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Briar
Tips for Playing as Brand with Briar
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Brand Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand 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 drop shows that Briar helps Brand perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand is an ally to Briar, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Briar provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside 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 alongside Briar.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Briar on the same side, he usually takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Brand during team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Briar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Brand that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Briar is a decent companion for Brand. By playing on the same side as Brand, they increases their win rate by 2.7% to 54.1%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Brand and Briar that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Briar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Brand players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Brand and Briar together, you will not be granting your other allies very much engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand to synergize with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Brand and Briar synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Brand used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Briar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 54.1% when playing alongside Briar with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Briar with Brand are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.