Galio with Briar
How to Synergize Galio and Briar
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Galio Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Briar
Tips for Playing as Galio with Briar
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Galio Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio 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 Galio perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Galio is an ally to Briar, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Briar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played together with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Moreover, when Galio plays with Briar on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Briar does a decent job of protecting Galio in teamfights.
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Is Galio better when played alongside Briar?
There is no top companion for Galio that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Briar is a superb teammate for Galio. By being on the same team as Galio, they raises their win rate by 3.0% to 53.6%. This signals that there is an important synergy between Galio and Briar that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Galio. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Briar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Galio and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Galio in order to work well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Galio and Briar synergy build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Briar than with most other common builds. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 53.6% when playing alongside Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Galio and Briar pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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