Briar with Bard
How to Synergize Briar and Bard
based on 4,450 Briar with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Briar Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Bard
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
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.
Briar Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Briar in LoL
The Briar Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Briar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Bard, they observes a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This may indicate that Bard helps provide protection for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Bard on the same side, they typically receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Briar in team fights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect ally for Briar that will always be their #1 ally. Yet, Bard is a good teammate for Briar. By being on the same side as Briar, he improves their win rate by 2.3% to 54.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Briar and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means you must be very careful when lining up Bard teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Briar and Bard together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to pair well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Briar and Bard synergy build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Briar incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 54.0% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Briar players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.0% winrate overall.
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