Briar with Malzahar
How to Synergize Briar and Malzahar
based on 5,623 Briar with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Briar Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Malzahar
Advice to Understand How Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Briar Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Briar in LoL
The Briar Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Briar perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Briar is paired with Malzahar, they gets a marginal improvement in their full damage output. This may indicate that Malzahar helps provide cover for them to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Malzahar on the same team, they often takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Briar in team fights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal companion for Briar that will no matter what be their top teammate. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Briar. By being on the same side as Briar, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 52.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Briar and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Briar. That means Briar players must be very careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Briar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Briar and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Briar in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Briar and Malzahar synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, The Collector, and Profane Hydra. When Briar included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 52.4% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take 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 rune sets that we analyzed for Briar and Malzahar pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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