Garen with Briar
How to Synergize Garen and Briar
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Garen Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Briar
Tips for Playing as Garen with Briar
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Garen Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Garen in LoL
The Garen Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Briar helps Garen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Briar, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Briar does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Briar on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Garen during team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Briar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Briar is a superb teammate for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, they raises their win rate by 3.5% to 52.2%. This signals that there is a very real synergy between Garen and Briar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be cautious when finding Briar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Garen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Garen and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen to pair well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Garen and Briar synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Briar than with most other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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