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Conqueror

Overheal

Legend: Tenacity

Cut Down

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Conditioning

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Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

1 2

VS MELEE/CC

Ghost

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vs SQUISHY melee champs

vs Armor stacking melee champs

EARLY GAME (lvl 1-8)

STARTING ITEMS VS MELEES

First Recall (WHEN POOR)

First Recall (WHEN RICH)

BOOTS OPTIONS

CORE ITEMS (EVERY GAME)

MID GAME

3rd & 4th MAIN ITEMS

LATE GAME

5TH & FINAL ITEMS

Ability Order BRIAR FULL CLEAR W MAX

Briar Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

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Synergies

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Jax

Extreme

All THREATS are Rated as if Briar is in a 1v1 against them. No help from anyone else (supports/ADCs are RATED on how easily they KITE Briar's engage) ------------------------------------------------------ EXTREME = UNPLAYABLE ------------------------------------------------------ Starting with JAX its Probably worth perma banning if you ever want to play Briar, very common toplane pick so you might as well AFK because you never beat Jax at any point in the game due to his E and scaling.

Orianna

Ideal

Playing for Orianas Ultimate combo with Briar is really nasty. The fact Oriana can ball briar to not only speed her up and provide her with a shield, but just free ult combo anyone that tries to fight back with briar essentially makes it so that no one can fight briar.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Orianna

Ideal

Champion Build Guide

BRIAR CHEAT SHEET 📄✅

Simple Guide with all the main points of my Briar guide! Scroll down to read more.

WINRATE PROOF (MY MATH WAS RIGHT!))

I TRIED TO WARN YOU GUYS THAT BRUISER BUILD ISNT GOOD!!!

SADLY MOST PEOPLE DIDNT LISTEN :( EVERYONES BUILDING BRUISER STILL.

DONT BUILD BRUISER--- MY FULL CRIT BRIAR BUILD IS THE BEST PROOF:

UPDATE AS OF 09/22/2023 15:00 PDT

Please leave a upvote if this was helpful; a LOT of research went into this guide.

PROS

+ ↠ Rarely loses a 1v1 duel.
+ ↠ Extremely healthy jungle sustain.
+ ↠ Fast clear speed after 1st clear.
+ ↠ Snowballs really hard.
+ ↠ Scales well.
+ ↠ 6 forms of Crowd Control in her Kit.

Briars early game is very weak, however if you can get past it she becomes a literal monster. Her late game snowballing is on par with or and has access to 6 forms of crowd control within her kit. Briar Q is a lock-on stun. Briar slows by 80% no matter how long its charged. When is fully charged it knocks back a target. If E2 knocks an enemy into a wall, it stuns for 1.5 seconds. Briar R1 can fear up to 4 targets, not including the initial target it hits, and Briar R1 has a 0.25 second micro-silence that stops enemy recalls and cancels channeled abilities.

CONS

- ⇏ Slow First Clear
- ⇏ Cannot teamfight without Ultimate
- ⇏ Weak early game
- ⇏ Terrible early ganks
- ⇏ Prone to CC
- ⇏ Easily Kiteable

Briar also has some extremely common counterpicks that when picked will make the game almost impossible for her to play regardless of playerskill level. These champs such as and make Briar almost completely useless naturally with their kits

From Riot August (Briar's Creator) on Full Crit Briar

WHY FULL CRIT BRIAR?

This build synergizes with Kraken Slayer's repeat target damage buff with Briars Self taunt. Navori Quickblades also gives increased ability damage based on Crit, which makes Briars 2nd W BITE deal more base damage stacking with crit damage. Briar W2 bite can also critcally strike and heal her for a lot more than it normally should. Her Auto attacks do a ton more damage with crit as well as she is completely auto attack reliant. Very squishy Glass Cannon Snowball build. Hard to get going, but once you do you cant be stopped.

Kraken Slayer EXPLAINED:

WHY RUSH KRAKEN SLAYER FIRST ITEM?

Simple, Kraken Slayer is the highest DPS first item on briar with no exceptions. Thanks to its passive that briar is forced to always use in her Self-Taunt. I did the math for it HERE so this isn't just my random opinion.

Navori Quickblades EXPLAINED:

WHY NAVORI QUICKBLADES MYTHIC ITEM?

Navori Quickblade's passive works extremely well with Briars . Briars W gives her a DASH followed with a BITE on her W2. This bite damage HEALS briar based off how much damage it deals, which CAN critically strike as it counts as a Basic Attack. The damage of the bite is ALSO increased by Navori's ability damage scaling off crit which means the more crit you have the more you heal even if an enemy ISNT low.

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BRIAR PASSIVE EXPLAINED:

Briar Passive causes her targets to bleed whenever they take damage from Briar's attacks, both abilities and basic attacks. actually deals more damage than except darius bleed gives him bonus attack damage at max stacks and resets on his ultimate. Briar bleed deals physical damage which can be reduced by armor, which heals Briar overtime. The healing is 25% of the damage Briars bleed deals after being reduced by enemy defensive stats. If a target dies with bleed stacks still going, she will heal the rest of their duration instantly. This does not result in a higher healing amount but just faster application of her passive healing.

Briar also gains increased healing from everything that heals her, including her healing her healing and her healing. Those abilites have natural healing which gets increased the lower Briar's HP is. This increased healing also applies to any lifesteal or omnivamp items Briar purchases from the shop.

Passive ability visual

BRIAR Q EXPLAINED:

Very small gap close with a targeted lock on stun. Reduces armor when it hits and does minimal damage. You can animation cancel Briar Q by using Briar W first. Briar W1 -> Briar Q instantly casts and cancles the animation for maximum damage output. Briar Q is also an auto attack reset and can be used to refresh her attack timer.

Briar's can also be utilized during her to stop Briar from seeking out champions as long as she uses on a minion or monster.

Q ability visual

BRIAR W1 (DASH) EXPLAINED:

Briar W has two parts which are referred to here as W1 and W2. This section will cover both parts. Briar W1 puts her in a Berserking state where she prioritizes any nearby champions. If no champions nearby it focuses minions and monsters instead, even WITHOUT vision of everything. This ability is heat-seeking and only range based. Briar can use to prioritize minions and stop focusing champions to avoide committing sodoku.

Briar W1 is also a medium length dash. W1 can dash over almost EVERY wall in the game I made a video to show every possible wall jump See WALL GUIDE HERE

BRIAR W2 (BITE) EXPLAINED:

Briar W2 when activated, Increases Briars Attack Range from 125 to 175 (+50) for one single auto attack. This auto attack will heal Briar based on the damage it does and deals additional damage based on how low the enemy is. With the crit build this W2 bite is treated as an auto attack which allows it to CRITCALLY STRIKE. This is the foundation for the crit build as you will heal a lot more on a W2 crit than you would normally and dont need to save it for when the enemy is low. You can raw W2 an enemy and heal for a massive ammount as long as its a crit. This is also an auto attack reset which refreshes Briars attack timer.

This ability lasts for 5 seconds, can be stopped early with , and will STOP focusing champions if Briar uses on a MINION

W1 (DASH) & W2 (BITE) Visual

BRIAR E EXPLAINED:

Briars E is almost functionally the same as Irelia's .

cannot be stopped by ANY crowd control and will keep charging up even if briar is stunned, knocked back, knocked up, silenced etc. This provides Briar with a ̶3̶5̶% 40% damage reduction at all ranks of E which should ALWAYS be saved. Never try to start a fight with E or finish off an enemy with E. Use your for your self as that 40% damage reduction is applied the exact frame tick that you press it and heals you for quite a bit being increased by your passive the lower HP you are.

EDIT: briar got a hotfix since her GLOBAL winrate is 34%. This is a result of everyone building bruiser instead of crit.
Source here as of 09/15/2023

E ability visual

BRIAR R1 & R2 EXPLAINED:

Briar sends out an Ultimate very similar to except it does NOT deal damage when it hits. R1 is just a mark nothing else. After R1 hits a target it marks them. Then Briar is forced to take her R2 which sends her flying directly towards the enemy she marked with R1. All enemies including the initial marked target will take AOE damage from Briar ONLY when she arrives. Upon arriving Briar ALSO FEARS everyone EXCEPT the initial marked target.

Briar R1 allows true sight of her target meaning if R1 hits someone they cannot gain any stealth from abilities like , , , , or AND will be fully revealed from these abilities if they are used before it hits too

Briar R1 also has a 0.25 silence that stops champion recalls or cancels channeled abilities such as , , , . , and more similar channeled abilities and ultimates.

BRIAR CANNOT AND WILL NOT STOP ATTACKING AN ENEMY DURING HER R2 UNLESS SHE USES

or until the target you hit dies.

R1 & R2 ability visual

🧱Wall Jumps Guide 👟

EVERY Possible Wall Jump, Hop, or Dash in Summoners Rift with Briar W1.

This is why you should always take and not on

☝️🤓DAMAGE TEST PROOF ☝️🤓

BUILD MATH AND PROOF

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🧾[Briar Gameplay Codex] 📚

See chapters below:

-JUNGLING 🌲🌳

How to Jungle as Briar:

It is essential as a Briar player to full clear.
Briar can start at either Red buff or Blue buff so always start the buff closest to your botlane for a leash. They might be upset and not want to leash but reassure them that this gives you a faster clear and allows you to get to your ultimate faster than having a toplaner leash. As a repayment be sure to come back and use Briar Ultimate down in botlane to help them out.

POWER SPIKES

Briar jungle pathing is very similar to a or as her ganks are drastically weaker without her ultimate. Briar gains a MASSIVE power spike as soon as she hits level 4 and level 6. You should never consider fighting in the early game until you are at least at that one of those powerspikes.

-GANKING 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

How to Gank as Briar:

Do not be fooled by Briar's stun as an effective means for a gank as it is only 0.85 seconds in duration. So unless you have a huge follow up from an ally like its honestly not worth trying to force a gank with.

You should only gank as Briar if you see an enemy over-extending without flash or around 50% of their Total HP. Otherwise you should always prioritize farming because the faster you get to level 6 with Briar the faster you can take over the game and snowball. Ganking risks getting yourself killed or putting yourself behind in farm XP & gold. As soon as you get level 6 with Briar that opens up the opportunity to fight anywhere on the map that you want but there are a couple caveats when it comes to using Briar ult.

BRIAR ULTIMATE GANKING:

-#1 Do not EVER use Briar ult down midlane if the 1st enemy outer mid lane tower has NOT been destroyed. Middle Lane in summoners rift is statistically the shortest length lane. Given that Briars does not fear the initial target it hits, this makes it even worse to ult down mid. If Briar hits a midlane target, they will always be relatively close to their tower and closer to safety. Even worse, champs like or can easily dash back to their tower once hit and force Briar to chase them and turn the gank around on you for a free kill.

-#2 Bot lane & Top lane are the best options for Briar as these lanes are a lot longer in length and enemies are more at risk of dying to you if this ability lands since they have to run further back to reach their tower or any safety.

-#3 Bottom Lane is the best option to ult down and Briar should always ult botlane unless they have or . These two adcs are the only threats as they can press 1 button to completely cancel out Briar ult with and which make it so that you can never ult them if these spells are up.

Ulting to gank a toplaner is very hard as most toplaners have a lot more escapes and are a lot tankier than the average adc. This makes it more unlikely to get a kill off ulting toplaners and a lot more likely to get a kill from ulting bot lane. By using Briar ult botlane you can fully utilize the AOE fear and separate the support from its ADC or vice versa. This by itself is enough to cause players to panick especially when they get feared. The chances of a kill from ulting botlane are far higher as you also will have your own botlane to back you up. Even if a jungler ganks bot before you, Briar ult gives the perfect counter gank setup and pretty much wins every fight so long as it hits and gets the fear off on a few others.

-DUELING⚔️🤺

How to DUEL with BRIAR:

Briar wins duels at very specific levels. The earliest she can even win a duel is at level 4 when she has at least 2 points in her W. This makes it so that Briar can easily win a 1v1 fight with her increased stat checks from if no one else interferes. However most fights you are rarely going to be a fair 1v1 which is when you need to wait for level 6 power spike. The increased armor, mr, and life steal and movespeed from allow briar to be a bit more tanky especially when combined with her ̶3̶5̶% 40% damage reduction while using . These two power spikes at level 4 & 6 are when Briar is at her strongest but not unstoppable. Even at these levels, briars biggest power spike comes at two items.

When dueling, make sure to SAVE all of Briars abilities. Do not EVER use unless its to stop an enemys burst combo or to stop yourself from Berserking in . You do NOT want to be in a frenzy with your down as it is almost always going to get yourself killed.

COMBOS & ANIMATION CANCELS

Briar can animation cancel her if she uses that first and then instantly uses her ability. The combo would be W1 -> Q very fast but not at the same time just Press W and Q right after. This will cancel the dash animation of Briars and also cancel the dash animation of and instantly gap close, stun, and enter frenzy mode all within the same second. So always make sure you save your Q so that you can use it to animation cancel Briar's W.

Briar's Q, W1 and W2 are all auto attack resets that refresh Briar's attack timer, so with enough practice you can auto almost 3-4 times instantly.

-SMITE SECURING⚡⚡⚡

Briar has extremely strong securing as her W deals execute damage to minions.

However, when using on something like dragon or rift herald, Briar will stop attacking the monsters and focus any enemy champions if they come too close.

Be sure to only use Briar W on an objective when it gets low and if Briar tries to auto path away from the monsters to nearby enemy champs, you can FORCE Briar to stay on the objective if you press Q on it as Briar's will stop Briar from targeting champions if she uses it on a minion or monster during her

Be sure to W1 + Q on the objective, followed by the W2 + at the same time to execute the objective and secure it.