Briar with Xerath
How to Synergize Briar and Xerath
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Briar Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Xerath
Advice to Understand How Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Briar Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Briar in LoL
The Briar Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Briar perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Xerath, they gets a little decrease in their full damage output. This change could indicate that Xerath does not help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Xerath.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Xerath on the same team, they often receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Briar during teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Briar that will no matter what be their top teammate. Yet, Xerath is a very typical ally for Briar. By locking into the same team as Briar, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 52.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Briar and Xerath that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Xerath allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Briar and Xerath together, you may not be giving your other allies much cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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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 work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Briar and Xerath synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, The Collector, and Profane Hydra. When Briar combined at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing alongside Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xerath with Briar are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.