Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
The Viktor 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, Viktor 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 worsening shows that Briar helps Viktor perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is an ally to Briar, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Briar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Viktor 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 synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Viktor plays with Briar on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of covering Viktor during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Viktor that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Briar is a very typical teammate for Viktor. By playing on the same side as Viktor, they raises their win rate by 0.2% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Viktor and Briar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Briar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Viktor players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Viktor and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your team much crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viktor in order to pair well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Viktor and Briar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Briar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Viktor players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Briar with Viktor are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.