Briar with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Briar and Vel'Koz
based on 3,637 Briar with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Briar Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Vel'Koz
Advice to Understand How Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Briar Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Briar in LoL
The Briar Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Briar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, they sees a small decrease in their total damage output. This difference could signal that Vel'Koz doesn't help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, they often receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Briar in team fights.
Synergies between Briar and Vel'Koz
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Is Briar better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top champion pairing for Briar that will always be their top teammate. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a decent ally for Briar. By locking into the same side as Briar, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 53.6%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Briar and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Vel'Koz comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Briar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Briar and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your other allies much engage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Briar to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Briar and Vel'Koz synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Death's Dance, and The Collector. When Briar included at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 53.6% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Briar and Vel'Koz pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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