Briar with Gwen
How to Synergize Briar and Gwen
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Briar Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Briar vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Gwen
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Briar Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Briar in LoL
The Briar Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gwen helps Briar perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar plays on the same team as Gwen, they observes a little decrease in their total damage output. This may demonstrate that Gwen does not help cover for them to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Gwen.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Gwen on the same side, they often takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Briar during teamfights.
Synergies between Briar and Gwen
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Is Briar better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no one best synergy for Briar that will 100% of the time be their #1 synergy. However, overall, Gwen is a below average ally for Briar. By being on the same team as Briar, she decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 49.3%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Briar and Gwen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Briar. That means Briar players must be very careful when enlisting Gwen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Briar and Gwen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Briar in order to pair well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Briar and Gwen synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Briar included at least these three great items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Gwen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Gwen with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Gwen with Briar are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.