Xerath with Briar
How to Synergize Xerath and Briar
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Xerath Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Briar
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Briar
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Xerath Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath 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 drop shows that Briar helps Xerath perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath tries to synergize with Briar, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Briar does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xerath 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 synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Briar on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Xerath in teamfights.
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best synergy for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Briar is a pretty good ally for Xerath. By locking into the same team as Xerath, they improves their win rate by 1.8% to 52.4%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Xerath and Briar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Briar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Xerath and Briar together, you will not be granting your team very much engage. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath in order to work well with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Xerath and Briar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Xerath combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Briar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 52.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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