Maokai with Briar
How to Synergize Maokai and Briar
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Maokai Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Briar
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Briar
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Maokai Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai 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, Maokai 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 fall shows that Briar helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Briar, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Briar doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Briar on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Briar on the same team, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Briar does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Briar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Briar is a pretty good ally for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, they raises their win rate by 2.7% to 55.3%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Maokai and Briar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Briar comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Briar together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to work well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Maokai and Briar synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Briar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 55.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.3% winrate overall.
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