Katarina with Briar
How to Synergize Katarina and Briar
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Katarina Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Briar
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Briar
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Katarina Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Briar helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Briar, she observes a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Briar helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Briar on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Briar?
There is no perfect companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, Briar is a pretty good companion for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, they raises their win rate by 1.1% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Katarina and Briar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Briar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Briar together, you may not be providing your team much support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Briar ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to synergize with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Katarina and Briar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Briar than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 49.9% when playing alongside Briar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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