Briar with Gnar
How to Synergize Briar and Gnar
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Briar Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Gnar
Advice to Understand How Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Briar Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Briar in LoL
The Briar Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gnar helps Briar perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar plays on the same team as Gnar, they observes a barely noticable drop in their full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Gnar does not support by providing protection for them to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Gnar on the same side, they often receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Gnar does a decent job of covering Briar during teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect companion for Briar that will always be their ideal teammate. Yet, Gnar is a below average ally for Briar. By being on the same team as Briar, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Briar and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means Briar players need to be very careful when lining up Gnar teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Briar and Gnar together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Briar and Gnar synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Death's Dance, and The Collector. When Briar included at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Gnar with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Briar players should take 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 sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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