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How to Synergize Briar with Garen on the Same TeamBriar is in the a tier of champions

Briar with Garen

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How to Synergize Briar and Garen

based on 5,472 Briar with Garen pairs
Win Rate
52.2 %
K/D/A
2.01
Pick Rate
3.2 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers pull the results of from millions of League matches directly from Riot Games each and every week. Briar has been on the same team as Garen in 5472 recently played, competitive games. By gathering so much relevant data straight from the publishers of League of Legends, we are completely sure that we can showcase high quality, insightful builds to help Briar synergize with Garen. It is relatively rare for Briar to play alongside Garen as teammates. This has only occurred in approx. 3.2% of games with Briar.

Briar Garen Synergy Summary

Briar has done a good job of playing alongside Garen. Typically, they wins a terrific 52.2% of games the champions try and work together in. If you want to maximize your potential as Briar when playing with Garen by figuring out how to better synergize your strategy with him, then look into the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Briar vs Garen Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Mosstomper SeedlingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeSerrated Dirk

Core Briar Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageBlack CleaverSundered Sky

Optional Items

EclipseGuardian AngelTitanic HydraDeath's Dance

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Briar to level upw
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Second ability for Briar to level upq
>
Last skill for Briar to max oute

Runes

DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactEyeball CollectionTreasure Hunter
InspirationMagical FootwearCosmic Insight
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Briar's passive ability p
Briar's q ability q
Briar's w ability w
Briar's e ability e
Briar's ultimate ability r
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W
2
E
3
Q
4
W
5
W
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R
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W
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Garen

Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play

Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.

Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.

Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.

Briar Garen Synergy Stats

Briar Image
Win Rate
52.2 %
VS
Win Rate
47.8 %
Garen Image
8.8
< Kills >
9.2
7.8
< Deaths >
7.8
6.9
< Assists >
6.8
2.03
< Killing Sprees >
2.11
34
< Minions Killed >
38
1.51
< Dragons Killed >
1.46
0.33
< Inhibitors >
0.33
18,136
< Physical Damage >
18,521
3,432
< Magic Damage >
3,253
984
< True Damage >
981
22,553
< Damage Dealt >
22,756
35,970
< Damage Taken >
36,026
12,551
< Gold Earned >
12,708
0.99
< Towers >
1.09
0.33
< Baron Takedowns >
0.32
30,432
< Total Healing >
30,392
13,832
< Experience >
13,976
20
< Vision Score >
19
6
< Wards Placed >
6
264
< Time Dealing CC >
257

How to Play with Garen as Briar in LoL

The Briar Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Briar perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Briar plays on the same team as Garen, they sees a barely noticable drop in their full damage dealt. This may indicate that Garen doesn't help cover for them to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.

Moreover, when Briar plays with Garen on the same team, they typically receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Briar in team fights.

Synergies between Briar and Garen

Damage Types Compared

Briar
Garen
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Briar
Garen

Is Briar better when played alongside Garen?

There is no perfect ally for Briar that will always be their ideal ally. Yet, overall, Garen is a very typical ally for Briar. By locking into the same side as Briar, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Briar and Garen that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.

Garen has a greater difficulty than Briar. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Garen teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.

When playing alongside, Briar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.

Although, by aligning Briar and Garen together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.

Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Briar Players

How We Calculated Our Briar Garen Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Briar and Garen, we analyzed 5,472 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Briar with Garen comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.

The most crucial finished items to use in your Briar and Garen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Briar bought at least these three items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 52.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Garen with this build.

To have the greatest chance of beating 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.

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