NERFPLZ.LOL
Briar champion portrait

Briar Build

Top Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 3,643 gamesUpdated

50.9%win rate0.2%pick12.2%ban

Who counters Briar

How to build Briar

Plated Steelcaps→Blade of The Ruined King→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Blade of The Ruined King → Black Cleaver → Death's Dance

60.7% win rate 6% of games 135 games
RunesPrecisionPress the AttackTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceDominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter33% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite71%
Skills
123456789101112131415161718
Head Rush
29101213
Blood Frenzy / Snack Attack
34578
Chilling Scream
114151718
Certain Death
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Briar build →
50.9%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.2% over 8,445 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.9% over 3,643 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.1%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
12.2%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.8%under 22 min
51.9%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.

Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Briar champion portraitT BriarvsKassadin champion portraitT Kassadin
9 / 5 / 7

Build

Mercury's Treads|Blade of The Ruined King→Black Cleaver→Endless Hunger

Spells & runes

IgniteCleanse|

Skills

QWEWWRWQWQRQQEERE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Briar champion portraitT BriarvsJayce champion portraitT Jayce
5 / 7 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Bastionbreaker→Profane Hydra

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EWQWWRWQWQRQQEER
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Briar champion portraitT BriarvsKog'Maw champion portraitT Kog'Maw
5 / 9 / 3

Build

Mercury's Treads|Titanic Hydra→Black Cleaver

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EQWWWRWQWQRQQE

Runes

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

Most popular 51.4% win rate · 33% of games · 990 games
PrecisionPress the AttackTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 46.3% win rate · 11% of games · 324 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
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite71%52.2%2,705 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport12%45.6%445 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps43%Mercury's Treads23%Gluttonous Greaves14%No boots7%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 51.8% win rate

Briar build

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

  1. Titanic Hydra1st
  2. Black Cleaver2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
3% of games that reach a third item take this path58.2% win rate79 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Briar →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 3,719 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
42% · 52.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
22% · 54.7% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
14% · 53.4% win rate
No bootsNo boots
10% · 54.1% win rate
BootsBoots
7% · 38.2% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
2% · 46.2% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Titanic Hydra›Black Cleaver+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 52.5% win rate · 59 games
  2. Blade of The Ruined King›Black Cleaver+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 53.4% win rate · 58 games
  3. Blade of The Ruined King+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 27.5% win rate · 51 games
  4. Blade of The Ruined King›Black Cleaver›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 69.8% win rate · 43 games
  5. Titanic Hydra›Black Cleaver›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 51.5% win rate · 33 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.

Read More About Briar