Rakan with Briar
How to Synergize Rakan and Briar
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Rakan Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Briar
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Briar
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Rakan Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Briar helps Rakan perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is an ally to Briar, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Briar does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Briar.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Briar on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of covering Rakan in team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Briar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Briar is a pretty good ally for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, they increases their win rate by 2.0% to 52.6%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Rakan and Briar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Briar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Rakan players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much engage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan to pair well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Rakan and Briar synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Rakan incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Briar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 52.6% helping carry Briar with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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