Briar
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NABans, presence and fearless: Briar across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 0.7%picked in 18 of 2,644 games
- Ban
- 1.6%31 bans over 1,958 games, against 5.4% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,664 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 215,636 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 compNo trait above other junglers; the most marked: Takes its kills in duels (rank 75).
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftNot enough series to settle it: raw counts only.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Jungle.
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 0.3%
- SoloQ
- 1.8%
- DraftBanned less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 1.3%
- SoloQ
- 5.4%
Not enough games to judge: win rate, length, keystone, spells, and core.
How to play it?
Press the Attack, then Titanic Hydra, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesPress the Attack76% · 6,744
SpellsFlash + Smite99% · 8,802- 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?
No trait above other junglers; the most marked: Takes its kills in duels (rank 75).
- Its most marked traitTakes its kills in duelstop25%23% · junglers: 20%
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
Nothing above junglers.
Like other junglers
- Gold at 15 min
- Gold at 20 min
- Map pressure
- Absorbs damage
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
- Crowd control (CC)
- Team damage
- Invade
What it is not
- No poke
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Not measured: the fact is not validated by the draft review.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 60% of junglers against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among junglers · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Gold at 15 min · rank 53 of 100 among junglers+19 · median +6
- Gold at 20 min · rank 40 of 100 among junglers-58 · median +64
- Map pressure · rank 53 of 100 among junglers4.7 · median 4.7
- Absorbs damage · rank 56 of 100 among junglers877 · median 855
- Plays teamfights · rank 46 of 100 among junglers51% · median 52%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 75 of 100 among junglers23% · median 20%
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 67 of 100 among junglers0.8 · median 0.7
- Team damage · rank 32 of 100 among junglers16% · median 17%
- Jungle farm · rank 16 of 100 among junglers62 · median 66
- Invade · rank 36 of 100 among junglers7% · 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.
With
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.
No pair measured in amateur play on this side.
Ban it or pick it?
Not enough series to settle it: raw counts only.
Pick rate as Jungle
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+1.8%7,564 picks of 431,269ban 5.4% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.3%10 picks of 3,686ban 1.3% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.0%0 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
3.0% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as JungleNot enough series yet: published from 30.