Briar with Katarina
How to Synergize Briar and Katarina
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Briar Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Katarina
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Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Briar Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Briar in LoL
The Briar Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Briar perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Katarina, they observes a barely noticable drop in their complete damage output. This difference could signal that Katarina does not provide cover for them to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Katarina on the same side, they typically takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Briar during team fights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Briar that will always be their #1 ally. Yet, Katarina is a below average companion for Briar. By playing on the same side as Briar, she lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 49.9%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Briar and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means you must be careful when finding Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Briar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Briar and Katarina together, you may not be granting your team much support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar to synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Briar and Katarina synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Sundered Sky, and The Collector. When Briar incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other common item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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