Briar with Riven
How to Synergize Briar and Riven
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Briar Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Riven
Advice to Understand How Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Briar Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Briar in LoL
The Briar Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Briar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Riven, they observes a little decrease in their full damage dealt. This may signal that Riven does not provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Riven on the same side, they typically receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Briar in teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Briar that will no matter what be their #1 teammate. However, Riven is a very typical companion for Briar. By playing on the same team as Briar, she decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 50.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Briar and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Briar. That means Briar players must be cautious when finding Riven comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Briar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Briar and Riven together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Briar to work well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Briar and Riven synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Briar bought at least these three items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 50.7% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Briar players should take 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 rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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