Briar with Shen
How to Synergize Briar and Shen
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Briar Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Briar and Shen
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Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Briar Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Briar in LoL
The Briar Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shen helps Briar perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar is an ally to Shen, they sees a sizeable uptick in their complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Shen supports by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Moreover, when Briar plays with Shen on the same team, they often takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Briar during teamfights.
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Is Briar better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Briar that will 100% of the time be their #1 ally. However, Shen is a decent ally for Briar. By being on the same team as Briar, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 53.8%. This proves that there is a good bond between Briar and Shen that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Shen has a greater difficulty than Briar. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Shen comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Briar and Shen together, you will not be providing your side a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Briar in order to pair well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Briar and Shen synergy build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Briar used at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better when paired up with Shen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.8% winrate overall.
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