Gnar with Briar
How to Synergize Gnar and Briar
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Gnar Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Briar
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Briar
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Gnar Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar 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, Gnar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Briar helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Briar, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Briar doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Briar on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Briar does a decent job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Briar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gnar that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Briar is a good teammate for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, they raises their win rate by 1.2% to 49.2%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Gnar and Briar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Briar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Briar together, you will not be granting your team very much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar 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 tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Gnar and Briar synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Force of Nature. When Gnar used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Briar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Briar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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