Briar with Zed
How to Synergize Briar and Zed
based on 4,570 Briar with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Briar Zed Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Zed
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Briar Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Briar in LoL
The Briar Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Briar perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar is paired with Zed, they sees a barely noticable drop in their full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Zed does not support by providing protection for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Zed 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 synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Zed on the same team, they typically receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Briar in teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top synergy for Briar that will no matter what be their best synergy. Yet, Zed is a not very good companion for Briar. By playing on the same team as Briar, he drops their win rate by -2.5% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Briar and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Briar and Zed together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, 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 should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Briar to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Briar and Zed synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Briar bought at least these three great items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Zed with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Briar players 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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