Briar with Olaf
How to Synergize Briar and Olaf
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Briar Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Olaf
Advice to Understand How Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Briar Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Briar in LoL
The Briar Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Olaf helps Briar perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Briar plays on the same team as Olaf, they gets a barely noticable drop in their full damage output. This difference could indicate that Olaf does not provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Olaf on the same team, they often receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Olaf does a decent job of covering Briar during teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no one best synergy for Briar that will always be their best ally. Yet, Olaf is a very bad ally for Briar. By locking into the same team as Briar, he lowers their win rate by -5.2% to 46.5%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Briar and Olaf that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Briar. That means Briar players don't need to be cautious when lining up Olaf allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Briar and Olaf together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Briar in order to pair well with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Briar and Olaf synergy build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar bought at least these three finished items in their build, they did much better when paired up with Olaf than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when playing alongside Olaf with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
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