Gragas with Briar
How to Synergize Gragas and Briar
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Gragas Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Briar
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Briar
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Gragas Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Briar helps Gragas perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Briar, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could signal that Briar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Briar.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Briar on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Briar does a decent job of covering Gragas in teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Briar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gragas that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Briar is a pretty good teammate for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, they improves their win rate by 2.3% to 50.2%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Gragas and Briar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Briar allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Gragas players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gragas and Briar together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas in order to synergize with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Gragas and Briar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Briar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Gragas and Briar pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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