Gangplank with Briar
How to Synergize Gangplank and Briar
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Gangplank Briar Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Briar
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Briar
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.
Gangplank Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank 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, Gangplank sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Briar helps Gangplank perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gangplank is paired with Briar, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Briar does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Briar on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of covering Gangplank in teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Briar
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Briar?
There is no perfect companion for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Briar is a very typical ally for Gangplank. By being on the same side as Gangplank, they improves their win rate by 0.7% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Gangplank and Briar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Briar allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gangplank and Briar together, you will not be providing your team much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank in order to work well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Gangplank and Briar synergy build include Mortal Reminder, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Briar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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