Jax

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.

Rammus

EXTREME = UNPLAYABLE ------------------------------------------------------ Aftershock + Rammus Armor & passive thornmail + item Thornmail will cause Briar to commit Sodoku. Maybe you can kill him but only if his Aftershock and/or his W is on cooldown. Very small windows to play around and you cant usually kill him during them either.

Ivern

Proper use of Daisy knockups + Ivern E slows and Q roots will completely halt Birars engage. Late game when he has max CDR/ability haste he can just chain CC you and make it near impossible for you to engage on himself or his allies

Shaco

BOXES ARE YOUR WORST ENEMY. He can lead you straight into his traps when you are taunted onto him. If the player is REALLY good at Shaco they can ALSO force Briar to attack his clone during her W or blocking Briars Ult with his clone and forcing you to be locked onto his clone until it dies. This is heavily Shaco favored matchup unless he is really behind.

Taliyah

Really hard to chase down. Her whole kit punishes people who run in a straight line and when self taunted youre gonna eat every rock she throws every knock back from her W and every explosive stone from her E whenever you use Q or W dashes. Luckily a lot of people dont play her.

Cassiopeia

Miasma DISABLES your Q and your W1 dash. If you use W1 or Land R on her, you cant turn away from her Ultimate. Pretty much always destroys you.

Teemo

If teemo has a lot of CDR for his Q you will be essentially useless vs him let alone in team fights. He can force you to walk into every shroom he sets up + blind Q makes it almost impossible to play Briar if hes on the enemy team at all.

Nilah

Nilah W makes her immune to all auto attacks which is amazing against Briar and makes it near impossible for Briar to kill her unless youre REALLY ahead. Nilah can also use her E Dash right over you the moment you start to charge your E which means you'll almost never land an E on her and like I said earlier, her W negates all your auto attacks during Briar Berserking mode which means 2 of your main abilities are just non-existent vs her.

Graves

MAJOR = ENEMY FAVORED -------------------------------------------- If you are jungling vs an Enemy Graves, he will naturally have an Advantage. His armor stacking Grit + his extra little mobility makes him hard to fight or kill. Briar will also be taking every single shotgun pellet to her mouth due to her self taunt on a graves giving him more damage. However, if the graves isnt keeping his grit fully stacked before fights, it makes it really easy to kill him as he wont usually build much armor. So a good graves player would be a 5 but most solo q graves will put him at a 4 in threat difficulty.

Kha'Zix

Khazix DESTROYS Briar early and can bully her out of the game. However, Khazix can manipulate your self-taunt by going invisible. This almost always gives him an advantage against Briar. Briar W will still heat-seek Khazix if he goes invis, but if he has W evolve for 90% slow you will never catch him. If khazix goes invisible while briar is fighting him near any minion or other enemies, like for example scuttle crab, it will break aggro from Khazix and throw briar at the next closes target, essentially wasting her W. Almost impossible to win this matchup as its heavily khazix sided.

Master Yi

After further research, Briar Q easily stops Master Yis meditate heal. Save it for that and you out trade him most times unless hes fed. The biggest problem with Master Yi is that his Alpha Strike can cancel your W and can also use his Alpha Strike to dodge briar R very easily. If Briar uses Blood Frenzy on Yi and then he uses Alpha Strike it will cancel out Briars W completely. Try to not use W until he alpha strikes.

Hwei

Almost unplayable unless you land Ult on him. He can easily fear + ult briar and you will never catch him.

Elise

Elise is a really hard matchup for Briar. Can completely dodge your ult with her Rappel in spider form, and cocoon Briar to stop you from berserking. Still needs the elise player to have good reaction times but honestly still in her favor just because of her Cocoon

Kayn

BLUE KAYN -------------------- Blue kayn is really good against Briar and is the best form for kayn against briar. Its hard to get since Briar gives kayn red orbs but if its a good game for kayn to get his blue form it makes it almost impossible for briar to ever catch him with his W being a 90% slow. His ultimate has further range and is great to out space briar if she ever catches him but with Kayn E being on a permanent 8 second cooldown once he gets his form he is VERY slippery and hard to catch as he wont ever try to duel you and just out poke briar with his W range + slow.

Amumu

Amumu passive reducing basic attack damage coupled with his guaranteed armor stacking makes it really hard to ever kill Amumu and he can also peel Briar very easily off his team making you very unlikely to succeed.

Nocturne

Noc as a Jungler always wins. After further testing everything in his kit is pretty much a direct counter to everything in Briars kit. Quite unplayable, his early game is stronger than Briar as well since his Q gives him bonus AD to stat check briar early, spell shield can eat briar ult or stop briar from stunning him with Q and even stop briar from knocking him back with her E either. His fear can always be saved when briar is in Blood Frenzy mode which will pretty much auto win every fight against briar.

Rengar

EVEN = SKILL MATCHUP ---------------------- Briar can just use her E whenever Rengar tries to do his Pounce combo on her. Reduces his burst and allows you to turn the fight. Forces rengar to ult away from you

Sylas

With full crit Briar, sylas can easily burst you when he gets 2/3 items, he can also use briars ult better than her as it has high AP scaling too. If you can use Briars E to minimize his burst combo you might be able to kill him but thats easier said than done.

Renata Glasc

Her Ultimate overrides Briars W and overrides Briars Ultimate, making Briar chase your allies. She can also stop you with her CC and her Revive ability. Source: https://youtu.be/SzUslTUY6dg?feature=shared&t=350

Lulu

Lulu Polymorph really just counters your entire kit. Most people can at least run away when polymorphed but briar will run AT her still when polymorphed and cant use E during a polymorph to cancel the self-taunt. If you ult someone she can Ult your target for a free knock up and polymorph you to easily turn the fight.

Gangplank

During Briars self-taunt, shes gonna walk into every barrel and wont have the option to destroy them once you use Briar W1 or R. He can just farm barrels on you that you will never be able to destroy. He can also cleanse Briar Q stun, E stun, or R fear.

Wukong

If the wukong is really good he will make sure to use his Clone to tank your W. Its hard to pull off but if done well can really screw you over.

Evelynn

Charming is weird semi-counter since Briar is already running at her when going Berserk, however during a charm you cant attack so Briar has to make sure evelynn doesnt have charm before going in to win.

Poppy

Poppy W allows Poppy to stop Briar Q every time. However, this requires the poppy to have good reaction time. Poppy can also bait Brair when shes taunted to stand near a wall for a free stun. However this again is completely based on if the poppy is good enough to do all that or not.

Jarvan IV

Jarvan loses really hard to Briar Early game but J4 tends to gank more than invade which briar can almost never win a 2v2 early vs J4. Briar outscales J4 but early game is a bit rough. A good J4 can easily take over the early game against a Briar and make it impossible to come back.

Ekko

MORE SKILL MATCHUPS. As briar you MUST save your E to buffer Ekkos W stun. If you can do this you will likely win every fight beause your E cant be stopped by CC. He can burst Briar and is hard to kill with his ultimate up which makes this a skill matchup

Milio

Very easy to escape Briar as a Milio. Milio Q is always going to hit you if you ever try to focus him or his ADC which stops your engage pretty hard. The increased range he gives his carries will allow them to kite the hell out of you. If you ever land an ult on him and fear his surrounding team he can just press R and cleanse your entire ult fear range since it doesnt fear the initial target. If he times his Q right he can always cancel Briars Q with his Q as its a low cooldown. This makes Milio a target you NEVER want to focus because you will rarely be able to stick onto him if you do. Obviously you win in a 1v1, but my point is Milio is never going to fight you and is excellent at kiting you and buffing his entire team to kite you with him.

Kayn

RED KAYN -------------------- Rhaast is the decent against Briar as Rhaast is able to brust and out heal Briars damage and kite her with his W knock up and E away through walls. Rhaast W knock up will always make it hard for briar to ever run him down. Rhaast can also use his R to turn the fight if he gets low and hide in it for the duration of Briars W. He cant really duel briar as Rhaast but if he can space her out he will win most fights.

Diana

If briar falls behind Diana can easily burst briar and can win short trades with her shield and Ultimate + hourglass. Otherwise briar will usually win.

Hecarim

More skill matchups. Briar E can buffer Hecarim Ultimate & fear and use Briar E to cancel out Hecarim E as well. Hecarim needs to space the Briar really hard with his max Q range which makes this matchup a bit easier for Briar.

Udyr

Kindred

Kindred needs to be a kiting GOD to win this matchup. Briar E can push Kindred out of her ult if you can get the angle.

Gragas

Gragas always has to waste his ultimate to get briar off him or his team mates, This makes him good to stop briar engage but not win a 1v1 completely.

Lillia

Lillia must space briar really well with her Q move speed and E slows and Ultimate sleep. Shes very hard to catch with everything up and is stronger then Briar but only if you kite with her really well.

Viego

This is a skill matchup, but Veigo is favored early so if he uses that to get ahead he will stay ahead. Briar needs to not fight him in his E and Briar must use Briar's E to reduce his Stun combo/ultimate damage. If viego catches briar without her E hes likely killing her.

Lee Sin

Lee can disengage the fights against briar very well with his Ultimate but loses early to briar without it. If he doesnt kill briar or put her near death with his initial combo briar will just heal it all back and turn the fight

Warwick

Warwick plays a lot like briar, almost identical playstyles. That being Said his fear gives him the advantage in all early fights but briar has the stats to outscale him late game. Warwick must invade and punish briar early or else briar will take over the game

Volibear

Briar must use Her E to buffer Volibear Thunder Stun combo. If you can do that you can easily turn the fight. If you dont you will likely lose.

Malphite

Full armor stacking + attack speed reduction and movepseed steal AND movespeed reduction. This makes it really hard for Briar to kill a malphite but only if briar is behind

Zac

Zac is really easy for briar to beat. He is tanky but you can just E buffer his entire combo and use Briar Q to cancel Zac E. His passive can be annoying so its up to briar to keep an eye on that.

Rek'Sai

Reksai isnt op against briar, Briar can easily tell when Reksai is underground and buffer the knock up combo from Reksai with Briar E and negate a lot of reksais burst, once her burst is over Briar will win the fight if she doesnt die from it initially. However reksai is always stronger early so if the reksai invades he can make briar useless.

Rumble

Rumble can easily overpower a briar if Rumble manipulates briar Berserk to sit in his ultimate and burn Briar to death, he is never a target briar should focus unless he is behind.

Xin Zhao

Dr. Mundo

His passive prevents him from being feared from Briars AOE fear from her ult, Mundo can also outheal Briars W damage + R and anti heals Briar with thornmail + tabis for free. You also cant use Briar E or Q on him pretty much ever thanks to his passive. So fighting him or locking him down will be near impossible unless you are SUPER ahead or he is very behind.

Darius

He destroys Briar Pre-level 6. Briar needs to use her Q or W dash INSIDE his Q so he doesnt full heal.

Trundle

Huge trundle favor early as his Q reduces your AD and his lifesteal can mimick yours at 1 item. Briar outscales trundle but a good trundle can take you out of the game early.

Alistar

Alistar will ping pong you during your Self Taunt. Alistar has access to Frozen Heart + Randuins ontop of his Ult and CC Combo and possibly thornmail. All he has to do is ult and combo you and you cant really kill him if you taunt onto him. He cant kill you either but he can hold you off until his team mates do.

Zoe

Zoe Sleep bubble is really easy to land when you taunt onto her. Not much room for outplay and if you get hit it stops you from being taunted by putting you to sleep effectively never catching a Zoe or team fights as long as her E is up. If her E is down she can buffer your Q stun with her R. Depends on how good the zoe is.

Malzahar

Dont ever try to fight Malzahar unless you know 100% his ult is down. His passive shield does NOT stop briars ultimate ability. Malzahar shield is a damage reduction shield not a spell shield like Sivirs (See sivir spell shield)

Sivir

SIVIR SPELL SHIELD COMPLETELY CONSUMES BRIARS ULT. If sivir presses E she can block Briars ultimate and you wont fly to her if it hits Sivir's shield. She can also use it to block your E or Q so Sivir shield is really hard to play against as well as her being able to easily kite you with her Ultimate. Its not even hard to react to it due to the global sound queue and effect the enemies See when briar ults. The only way Sivir is weak against briar is if sivir doenst have her shield up but her shield is always a lower CD than Briar ult so itll be hard but not impossible (See malzahar)

Nasus

Late game, Wither reduces Briar attack speed by a LOT and also saps your movespeed as well. All Nasus has to do is Wither Briar as soon as briar taunts and with ghost he can easily outrun you. If he has tons of passive stacks + frozen heart or randuins since he can easily stack armor- you will be pretty useless against him. However you destroy him early if he chooses to fight you, and if hes behind hes usually a free kill.

Caitlyn

Hard to avoid Cait traps when running in a straight line. Cait + Lulu makes you non-existent. Your ultimate landing on her is the only shot you have to kill her but even then she can just E flash and usually get away.

Veigar

Briar ult makes you unstoppable so Veigar cant stop your ult with his cage. However, if he saves the cage after you land or when you dont have ultimate up- youre pretty useless

Azir

Azir is similar to veigar. Briar ult makes you unstoppable so Azir cant stop your ult with R. However, if he saves his R after you land or when you dont have ultimate up- youre pretty useless

Vex

Vex is similar to veigar and Azir. Briar ult makes you unstoppable so Vex cant stop your ult with her FEAR. However, if Vex saves her Fear after you land or when you dont have ultimate up- youre pretty useless

Heimerdinger

Very Hard to kill a Heimerdinger late game where he sits around his Ult + turrets + hourglass and 600 AP which almost every heimer will run. You should completely avoid fighting a Heimer unless he doesnt have hourglass

Annie

Annie is a champion that excels at destroying melee champs due to her range and Thornmail E + Tibbers stun. This makes annie extremely well against a Briar but requires the annie to be very conscious of her Ult cooldowns and passive Stun stacks

Bel'Veth

MINOR = BRIAR FAVORED. -------------------------------------------- Briar almost FULL COUNTERS Bel'veth. BelVeth E gives Belveth 70% damage reduction which Briar can completely disable. Briar can use Briar's Q to stun and stop Belveth during her E. Briar Can also save Briar's E and use it when Bel'Veth tries to knock up Briar with Bel'Veth W. Briar E cannot be canceled when charging it up making Bel'Veths knock up useless. As long as you save your Q to cancel Bel'Veths E, You can also use Briar E to buffer Bel'Veth W, and never lose a fight.

Nidalee

Most nidalee players are bad except for high elo, However its pretty easy to land a huge range nidalee spear on a self-taunted briar. But briar can dodge it with her W 1 or overwhelm nidalee with Briars ultimate

Nunu & Willump

Another champion Ultimate that briar can completely cancel with her Ultimate. Nunus only chance against you is an ultimate out of vision but as long as you keep vision of him you can always cancel his ultimate with yours and follow his ganks around the map with your ult as well. Even if you dont have R up you can just tap Q on nunus head during his ult and stop it that way too.

Skarner

Vi

Most of these Even matchups require Briar to use her E damage negation and healing to buffer critical abilities from an enemy. In Vi's case Briar should always use Briar E to buffer Vi Q or Vi Ultimate. This will help you disengage the vi and turn the fight easily after as these abilities are very telegraphed.

Kayn

BASE KAYN -------------------- Briar shits on early game kayn, if he walks over a wall Briar can almost always hop over it with her W or Q him to stun him out of the wall. Briar E also stuns him if you hit him while hes in his E in a wall

Karthus

Fiddlesticks

Anivia

Anivia is annoying with her stuns and slows but Briar can always hop over anivia wall. Shes harder to kill late game because of seraphs shield + hourglass and egg passive so briar needs to be very aware of these cooldowns before fighting her.

Samira

Samira W wind-wall can completely eat Briar's ult as long as the Samira doesnt have the reaction time of a turtle. Which will be pretty much every time since her W cooldown is always shorter than Briars ult cooldown. Playing against a Samira makes it impossible to get a pick on her or anyone else if she groups

Yasuo

Another wind wall another problem. In a full auto attack battle Briar beats Yasuo, But Yasuo can easily kite Briar by dashing away to minions during Briars Berserk mode and also Windwalling Briar Ultimate from himself or to protect his team, effectively making you never land an ultimate all game.

Jhin

TINY = FREE KILLS ALL GAME -------------------------------------------- BRIAR ULTIMATE CANCLES JHIN ULTIMATE. WAIT TILL JHIN ULTS THEN JUST ULT NEAR THE SMALL PART OF HIS CONE EVEN WITHOUT VISION YOU WILL HIT STOP HIS ULT AND DESTROY HIM LOL

Miss Fortune

Mf is really annoying when ahead, but thats honestly every adc. The worst part about mf is her movementspeed, she can literally out run you if shes not incombat which is really lame.

Zyra

Zyra can be annoying if they are really good at setting up their plants. If zyra sits on her plants and roots Briar it stops your engage entirely. BUT if zyra wastes her Root or doesnt have ult, shes pretty much a free kill.

Sona

Sona needs to always ult you and exhaust you and even then will still probably die as a free kill.

Shen

Very hard for briar to do anything against a good shen player. Whenever Briar goes on a target, shen can easily just press R, taunt briar and force Briar to attack his "Spirit's Refuge" where it blocks all auto attacks, and essentially be a direct counter to all of briars possible engage and cancel out her ult as he can just press R on the target you hit to avoid Briars fear and help his ally.

Smolder

Hard to really lock down a smolder unless you commit to a flash or ultimate engage. The fact he can fly over walls makes it very hard to lock him down + he builds a lot more bruiser tank items so it can be hard to one shot him unlike other adcs.