Graves with Briar
How to Synergize Graves and Briar
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Graves Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Briar
Tips for Playing as Graves with Briar
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Graves Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Briar helps Graves perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Briar, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Briar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Briar on the same team, he on average receives less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Graves that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Briar is a relatively poor companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, they decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 48.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Graves and Briar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Briar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Graves and Briar together, you probably will not be giving your side much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Briar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to work well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Graves and Briar synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Briar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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