Nasus with Briar
How to Synergize Nasus and Briar
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Nasus Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Briar
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Briar
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Nasus Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Briar helps Nasus perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Briar, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Briar does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Briar.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Briar on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of covering Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best synergy for Nasus that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Briar is a decent teammate for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, they increases their win rate by 2.8% to 53.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Nasus and Briar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be careful when lining up Briar teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nasus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nasus and Briar together, you may not be granting your other allies very much support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nasus in order to work well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Nasus and Briar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Trinity Force. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Briar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 53.1% helping carry Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Nasus players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.1% win rate overall.
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