Varus with Briar
How to Synergize Varus and Briar
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Varus Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Briar
Tips for Playing as Varus with Briar
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Varus Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus 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 drop shows that Briar helps Varus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is paired with Briar, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Briar does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Briar on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Varus in team fights.
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Is Varus better when played alongside Briar?
There is no perfect companion for Varus that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Briar is a very typical teammate for Varus. By locking into the same side as Varus, they raises their win rate by 0.8% to 49.2%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Varus and Briar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Briar has a greater difficulty than Varus. That means you should be cautious when lining up Briar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Varus players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Varus and Briar together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Varus to synergize with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Varus and Briar synergy build include Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Varus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Briar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Briar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Varus players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Varus and Briar pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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