Briar with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Briar and Kog'Maw
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Briar Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Kog'Maw
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Briar Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Briar in LoL
The Briar Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kog'Maw helps Briar perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Briar is an ally to Kog'Maw, they sees a small increase in their total damage dealt. This may indicate that Kog'Maw provides cover for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, they often receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Briar in teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Briar that will no matter what be their ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a not very good teammate for Briar. By locking into the same side as Briar, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Briar and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Briar. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Kog'Maw teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Briar and Kog'Maw together, you may not be granting your side much protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing 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 to work well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Briar and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar used at least these three finished items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the best likelihood 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kog'Maw with Briar are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.