Malzahar with Briar
How to Synergize Malzahar and Briar
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Malzahar Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Briar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Briar
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Malzahar Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar 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, Malzahar sees a very large drop 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 Malzahar perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Briar, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Briar provides cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside 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 with Briar.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Briar on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Briar does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best synergy for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Briar is a good companion for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, they raises their win rate by 1.9% to 52.4%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Malzahar and Briar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Briar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Malzahar and Briar together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of cover. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to synergize with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Malzahar and Briar synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Briar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing alongside Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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