Briar with Skarner
How to Synergize Briar and Skarner
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Briar Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Skarner
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Briar Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Briar in LoL
The Briar Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Briar perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Skarner, they observes a clear improvement in their full damage dealt. This may signal that Skarner supports by providing cover for them to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Skarner 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 with Skarner.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Skarner on the same team, they typically takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Skarner does a poor job of covering Briar in team fights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top companion for Briar that will no matter what be their best teammate. However, Skarner is a very bad teammate for Briar. By locking into the same team as Briar, he lowers their win rate by -11.7% to 40.0%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Briar and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Briar. That means you should be cautious when lining up Skarner comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Briar and Skarner together, you may not be giving your team very much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to synergize with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Briar and Skarner synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Hubris. When Briar bought at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better as an ally of Skarner than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 40.0% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 40.0% winrate overall.
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