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.
The Briar Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Briar sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Annie helps Briar perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Briar plays on the same team as Annie, they sees a little increase in their complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Annie helps provide protection for them to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Annie on the same side, they usually takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Annie does a poor job of protecting Briar during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Briar that will no matter what be their top teammate. Yet, Annie is a very typical teammate for Briar. By playing on the same team as Briar, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 52.2%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Briar and Annie that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Briar. That means Briar players must be cautious when finding Annie comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Briar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Briar and Annie together, you will not be granting your side very much engage potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Briar to pair well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Briar and Annie synergy build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Briar included at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better when fighting alongside Annie than with many other common item sets. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 52.2% helping carry Annie with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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