Kayn with Briar
How to Synergize Kayn and Briar
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Kayn Briar Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Kayn with Briar
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Kayn Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn 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 fall shows that Briar helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Briar, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Briar doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Briar on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Kayn in teamfights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Briar?
There is no perfect companion for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Briar is a not very good ally for Kayn. By locking into the same side as Kayn, they decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Kayn and Briar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be careful when arranging Briar comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Kayn players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kayn and Briar together, you may not be providing your team very much AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayn in order to work well with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Kayn and Briar synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Kayn included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Briar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Kayn players should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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