Briar with Gangplank
How to Synergize Briar and Gangplank
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Briar Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Gangplank
Advice to Understand How Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Briar Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Briar in LoL
The Briar Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Briar sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Briar perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Briar is an ally to Gangplank, they sees a little drop in their total damage output. This may indicate that Gangplank does not support by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Gangplank.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Gangplank on the same side, they usually receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Briar during team fights.
Synergies between Briar and Gangplank
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Is Briar better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no ideal ally for Briar that will always be their ideal teammate. Yet, Gangplank is a not very good companion for Briar. By playing on the same team as Briar, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 49.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Briar and Gangplank that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means you must be cautious when arranging Gangplank comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Briar players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Briar and Gangplank together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to pair well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Briar and Gangplank synergy build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Briar combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better as an ally of Gangplank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Gangplank with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Briar players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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