Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Briar Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Briar perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar plays on the same team as Nidalee, they observes a marginal improvement in their full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Nidalee provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Nidalee on the same side, they often takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Briar during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Briar that will 100% of the time be their best ally. However, Nidalee is a below average teammate for Briar. By locking into the same team as Briar, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Briar and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means Briar players need to be cautious when lining up Nidalee allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Briar and Nidalee together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Briar to pair well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Briar and Nidalee synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar included at least these three finished items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Briar players 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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