Briar with Maokai
How to Synergize Briar and Maokai
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Briar Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Maokai
Advice to Understand How Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Briar Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Briar in LoL
The Briar Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Briar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar is paired with Maokai, they gets a marginal improvement in their full damage output. This may indicate that Maokai supports by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Maokai on the same team, they often receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Briar in teamfights.
Synergies between Briar and Maokai
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Is Briar better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top synergy for Briar that will no matter what be their #1 synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a superb ally for Briar. By playing on the same side as Briar, he increases their win rate by 3.6% to 55.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Briar and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Briar. That means Briar players don't need to be cautious when lining up Maokai teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Briar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Briar and Maokai together, you will not be providing your team much magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Briar and Maokai synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Briar bought at least these three finished items in their build, they performed significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 55.3% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of beating 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Briar and Maokai pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.3% winrate overall.
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