Briar
Computed from 167,897 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 51.0% | 0.4% |
| Jungle | 52.4% | 5.9% |
| Mid | 52.4% | 0.4% |
Briar is banned in about 13.3% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Briar's Jungle win rate is 2.4 percentage points above an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Briar is tracked in 3 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Jungle — its numbers in Top (0.4% pick rate) and Mid (0.4% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Briar's Jungle Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.21, Briar's most common Jungle setup runs Flash and Smite with Press the Attack, maxes W first, and builds Titanic Hydra, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance — 51.4% win rate over 32,950 games.
- Summoner spells
Flash + Smite
51.4%32,541 games - Runes
Press the Attack + Domination
53.4%2,455 games - Skill priority W > E > Q 53.2%1,015 games
- Starter
Mosstomper Seedling
53.0%10,822 games - Boots
Gluttonous Greaves
55.2%1,994 games - First three items
Titanic Hydra → Black Cleaver → Death's Dance
58.4%3,999 games
Briar's Jungle Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 53.2% | 7.7% | 18,291 | 0.42σ | No |
| Bronze | 53.5% | 6.9% | 21,212 | 0.57σ | Yes |
| Silver | 52.4% | 6.5% | 25,183 | 0.40σ | No |
| Gold | 52.2% | 5.9% | 26,221 | 0.41σ | No |
| Platinum | 51.9% | 5.3% | 25,513 | 0.37σ | No |
| Emerald | 51.6% | 4.7% | 18,045 | 0.36σ | No |
| Diamond | 50.3% | 3.5% | 11,747 | 0.08σ | No |
| Master | 49.8% | 1.9% | 2,897 | 0.05σ | No |
Briar's Jungle win rate ranges from 49.8% at Master to 53.5% at Bronze across the 8 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 3.7-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.57σ at Bronze and 0.05σ at Master, with only the Bronze figure clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. 2 tiers under 200 games not shown.
- Power curve
- Early game
- Threats
- Healing and burst
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Briar in Jungle?
Champions That Counter Briar
| Champion | Win Rate vs Briar | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Fizz |
53.4% | 0.71σ |
Teemo |
52.1% | 0.43σ |
Wukong |
51.6% | 0.34σ |
Rammus |
51.4% | 0.30σ |
Sion |
51.1% | 0.24σ |
Champions Briar Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Briar | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Vayne |
35.1% | 3.13σ |
Heimerdinger |
41.0% | 1.89σ |
Yasuo |
41.0% | 1.88σ |
Pantheon |
41.3% | 1.82σ |
Yone |
41.8% | 1.71σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Briar: the 5 that counter it here lean control-heavy, with a tight, 2-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them, while 5 favourable matchups round out the picture — most matchups you could actually face simply aren't covered.