Shaco with Briar
How to Synergize Shaco and Briar
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Shaco Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Briar
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Briar
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Shaco Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Briar helps Shaco perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Briar, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change may signal that Briar provides cover for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Briar on the same side, he often takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Shaco in team fights.
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best synergy for Shaco that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Briar is a pretty good companion for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, they increases their win rate by 2.1% to 51.5%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Shaco and Briar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be very careful when arranging Briar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Shaco and Briar together, you may not be granting your other allies much utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shaco in order to work well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Shaco and Briar synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Briar than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Shaco players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Briar with Shaco are given for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.