Leona with Briar
How to Synergize Leona and Briar
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Leona Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Briar
Tips for Playing as Leona with Briar
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Leona Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Leona in LoL
The Leona Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Briar helps Leona perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is paired with Briar, she gets a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Briar helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Briar on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Briar?
There is no ideal synergy for Leona that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Briar is a decent companion for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, they improves their win rate by 1.1% to 53.3%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Leona and Briar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Briar teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Leona and Briar together, you may not be providing your side very much AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Briar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to synergize with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Leona and Briar synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Briar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.3% helping carry Briar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Briar with Leona are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.