Briar with Pyke
How to Synergize Briar and Pyke
based on 5,290 Briar with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Briar Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Pyke
Advice to Understand How Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Briar Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Briar in LoL
The Briar Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Pyke helps Briar perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Pyke, they observes a barely noticable drop in their total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Pyke doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Pyke on the same team, they on average takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Briar during teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top companion for Briar that will 100% of the time be their ideal synergy. Yet, Pyke is a not very good ally for Briar. By locking into the same team as Briar, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 49.8%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Briar and Pyke that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means you must be cautious when lining up Pyke comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Briar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Briar and Pyke together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 to pair well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Briar and Pyke synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Briar incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 49.8% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Pyke with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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