Briar with Karthus
How to Synergize Briar and Karthus
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Briar Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Karthus
Advice to Understand How Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Briar Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Briar in LoL
The Briar Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Briar perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Briar is an ally to Karthus, they sees a little increase in their total damage output. This difference may indicate that Karthus helps provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Karthus 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 alongside Karthus.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Karthus on the same team, they usually receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Briar during team fights.
Synergies between Briar and Karthus
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Is Briar better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no top ally for Briar that will always be their top ally. However, overall, Karthus is a very typical teammate for Briar. By locking into the same team as Briar, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 51.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Briar and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means Briar players should be very careful when arranging Karthus comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Briar and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your team enough engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your 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 learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Briar and Karthus synergy build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Karthus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 51.6% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you 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 players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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