Karthus with Briar
How to Synergize Karthus and Briar
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Karthus Briar Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Karthus with Briar
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Karthus Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus 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, Karthus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Briar helps Karthus perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus tries to synergize with Briar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Briar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Briar on the same team, 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 Karthus plays with Briar on the same side, he usually takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Briar does a decent job of protecting Karthus in team fights.
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Briar?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Karthus that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Briar is a great companion for Karthus. By playing on the same side as Karthus, they improves their win rate by 4.3% to 51.6%. This shows that there is a strong bond between Karthus and Briar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Briar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Karthus and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much engage potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karthus to pair well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Karthus and Briar synergy build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus included at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Briar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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