Briar with Malphite
How to Synergize Briar and Malphite
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Briar Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Malphite
Advice to Understand How Malphite Will Play
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Briar Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Briar in LoL
The Briar Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, 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 Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malphite helps Briar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Malphite, they observes a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This could indicate that Malphite supports by providing cover for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Malphite on the same team, they on average receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Briar during team fights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no one best ally for Briar that will no matter what be their #1 teammate. However, overall, Malphite is a very typical teammate for Briar. By playing on the same team as Briar, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 52.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Briar and Malphite that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malphite has a lower difficulty than Briar. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Malphite comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Briar and Malphite together, you may not be giving your team very much AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 to work well with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Briar and Malphite synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Briar incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better when paired up with Malphite than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 52.1% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Malphite with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you 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. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Briar and Malphite pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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