Briar with Nocturne
How to Synergize Briar and Nocturne
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Briar Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Nocturne
Advice to Understand How Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Briar Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Briar in LoL
The Briar Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nocturne helps Briar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar is paired with Nocturne, they sees a noticable increase in their complete damage dealt. This could signal that Nocturne supports by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Nocturne on the same side, they typically receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Briar during team fights.
Synergies between Briar and Nocturne
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Is Briar better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no ideal companion for Briar that will 100% of the time be their ideal synergy. However, overall, Nocturne is a very typical teammate for Briar. By locking into the same team as Briar, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 52.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Briar and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a greater difficulty than Briar. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Briar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Briar and Nocturne together, you may not be giving your team enough magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, 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
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Briar and Nocturne synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar bought at least these three finished items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Nocturne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Briar players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Briar and Nocturne pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Nocturne with Briar are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.