Briar with Talon
How to Synergize Briar and Talon
based on 2,099 Briar with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Briar Talon Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Talon
Advice to Understand How Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Briar Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Briar in LoL
The Briar Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Talon helps Briar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar is an ally to Talon, they gets a little drop in their full damage output. This difference may signal that Talon does not provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played with Talon 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 Talon.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Talon on the same team, they often takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Talon does a poor job of covering Briar in teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect ally for Briar that will 100% of the time be their best teammate. However, overall, Talon is a very bad teammate for Briar. By being on the same team as Briar, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Briar and Talon that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Talon has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means you should be very careful when lining up Talon allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Briar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Briar and Talon together, you may not be giving your team enough magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Talon ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 synergize with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Briar and Talon synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Briar included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Talon than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 48.5% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Talon with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Briar players 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 runes players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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