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Briar Build

Jungle God Tier

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 55,543 gamesUpdated

52.4%win rate2.6%pick12.2%ban

Who counters Briar

Every Jungle matchup for Briar, ranked →

How to build Briar

Plated Steelcaps→Titanic Hydra→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Titanic Hydra → Black Cleaver → Death's Dance

55.7% win rate 6% of games 2,740 games
RunesPrecisionPress the AttackTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceDominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter41% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite98%
Skills
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Head Rush
39101213
Blood Frenzy / Snack Attack
14578
Chilling Scream
214151718
Certain Death
61116
StartScorchclaw PupScorchclaw Pup
Full Briar build →
52.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 52.3% over 132,445 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.4% over 55,543 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.3%at Emerald+
2.6%pick rate
12.2%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
55.5%under 22 min
51.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Briar champion portraitJ BriarvsGraves champion portraitJ Graves
8 / 8 / 7

Build

Scorchclaw PupGluttonous Greaves|The Collector→Profane Hydra→Chempunk Chainsword→Guardian Angel

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

WEQWWRWQWQREEEQ
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Briar champion portraitJ BriarvsZac champion portraitJ Zac
9 / 3 / 16

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingPlated Steelcaps|Blade of The Ruined King→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EWQWWRWQWQRQQEEREE
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Briar champion portraitJ BriarvsAmumu champion portraitJ Amumu
11 / 9 / 14

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingPlated Steelcaps|Titanic Hydra→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance→Guardian Angel

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWEWWRWQWQRQQEERE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 52.2% win rate · 41% of games · 22,585 games
PrecisionPress the AttackTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 52.5% win rate · 16% of games · 8,710 games
DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactSixth SenseTreasure Hunter
InspirationCash BackTriple Tonic
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 98% of games, 52.5% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps45%Mercury's Treads31%Gluttonous Greaves9%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 52.1% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup40%
4 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Briar build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Black Cleaver1st
  2. Titanic Hydra2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path58.3% win rate1,847 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Briar →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 57,511 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
44% · 52.1% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
30% · 52.2% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
9% · 55.9% win rate
No bootsNo boots
7% · 54.3% win rate
BootsBoots
7% · 50.5% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
1% · 54.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. The Collector+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 37.4% win rate · 618 games
  2. Titanic Hydra›The Collector+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 38.9% win rate · 601 games
  3. Black Cleaver›Titanic Hydra›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 52.7% win rate · 558 games
  4. Black Cleaver›Titanic Hydra+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 40.5% win rate · 531 games
  5. Titanic Hydra›Black Cleaver›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 59.3% win rate · 508 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Briar against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Briar's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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