Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
The Briar Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Naafiri helps Briar perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Briar is an ally to Naafiri, they observes a little drop in their total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Naafiri does not provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played with Naafiri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Naafiri. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Naafiri on the same side, they typically receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Briar during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Briar that will no matter what be their top ally. However, overall, Naafiri is a good ally for Briar. By being on the same team as Briar, they increases their win rate by 2.4% to 54.1%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Briar and Naafiri that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Naafiri has a lower difficulty than Briar. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Naafiri allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Briar and Naafiri together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to work well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Briar and Naafiri synergy build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Briar used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Naafiri than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 54.1% helping carry Naafiri with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.1% winrate overall.
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