Briar
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · All regionsBans, presence and fearless: Briar across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 0.9%picked in 264 of 28,321 games
- Ban
- 1.7%393 bans over 23,071 games, against 2.9% in soloQ
Amateur: 28,642 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR 65% · EUW 24% · NA 10%. SoloQ Master+: 919,797 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Jungle.Draft
- How to play itPress the Attack, then Titanic Hydra, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compTakes its kills in duels first: more duels than 97% of junglers.Map pressureDuelist
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftFallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Jungle.
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 0.3%
- SoloQ
- 1.2%
- DraftBanned less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 1.7%
- SoloQ
- 2.9%
How to play it?
Press the Attack, then Titanic Hydra, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesPress the Attack70% · 17,625
SpellsFlash + Smite99% · 24,887
SkillsWnot collected in soloQ- Titanic Hydra
- Black Cleaver
- Death's Dance
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Takes its kills in duels first: more duels than 97% of junglers.
- Takes its kills in duelstop3%30% · junglers: 20%
- Map pressuretop7%5.7 · junglers: 4.7
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other junglers
What marks it
- Map pressure
- Duelist
Like other junglers
- Damage in mid game
- Absorbs damage
- Crowd control (CC)
- Team damage
- Invade
What it is not
- Few teamfights
- Carries its own kills
- No poke
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 93 in lane, 39 in mid game and 10 in late game, out of 100 junglers.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, ahead of 93% of junglers against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among junglers · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 93 of 100 among junglers421 · median 383
- Damage in mid game · rank 39 of 100 among junglers780 · median 796
- Damage in late game · rank 10 of 100 among junglers897 · median 1,056
- Gold at 15 min · rank 94 of 100 among junglers+431 · median +6
- Gold at 20 min · rank 93 of 100 among junglers+702 · median +64
- Map pressure · rank 93 of 100 among junglers5.7 · median 4.7
- Absorbs damage · rank 25 of 100 among junglers574 · median 855
- Plays teamfights · rank 8 of 100 among junglers45% · median 52%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 97 of 100 among junglers30% · median 20%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 2 of 100 among junglersrank 2 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 55 of 100 among junglers0.8 · median 0.7
- Team damage · rank 68 of 100 among junglers19% · median 17%
- Jungle farm · rank 5 of 100 among junglers60 · median 66
- Invade · rank 63 of 100 among junglers8% · median 7%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
Ban it or pick it?
Fallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
Pick rate as Jungle
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+1.2%22,981 picks of 1,839,586ban 2.9% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.3%129 picks of 38,304ban 1.7% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.0%0 picks of 2,224bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
2.6% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Jungle- 0.4%G132 games of 7,162
- 0.6%G241 games of 7,164
- 0.5%G3+13 games of 2,847
