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Playing Against Briar
JunglePatch 16.2.1
What They Do
A dive-heavy jungler that thrives on chaos and sustain. She uses to enter a self-taunted frenzy that chases the nearest enemy, relying on and chomps for massive mid-fight healing. She is weak to being kited and is forced to use to end her own aggression.
Abilities (What to Watch For)
| Ability | What You'll See | What It Means For You |
|---|---|---|
| Stacking bleed icon on your health bar | She heals more as she gets lower. She has zero natural HP regen, meaning any poke damage you stick on her in the jungle stays there until she hits something. | |
| A short leap followed by a kick | Point-and-click stun and armor shred. She will use this to gap close or to switch her target to a specific champion. | |
| She breaks her shackles and runs fast with red effects | Her primary damage tool. She gains AS/MS but MUST attack the nearest target. The reactivation is a missing HP execute that heals her significantly. | |
| A wide scream indicator and a defensive stance | She takes reduced damage and heals while charging. If she hits a wall with the knockback, you get stunned. Crucially, this is the ONLY way she can cancel her frenzy early. | |
| A global projectile followed by a map-wide scream | A semi-global dive. If it hits, she flies to the target, fears everyone else, and gains massive combat stats. She will hunt that specific target until one of them dies or she uses . |
Respect
- !Low HP Baiting→Between healing and the chomp, she is often most dangerous when below 30% HP. Do not take close 1v1s if you can't burst that remaining health instantly.
- !Execute→The Snack Attack (W2) damage scales with your missing health. If you are below 40% HP, her chomp can easily deal 300-500+ damage and heal her for half her bar.
- !Point-blank →If you are fighting her near a wall, she can tap to instantly stun you against it, giving her enough time to wait for cooldowns or escape.
- !The Fear→If she hits a teammate with her ultimate, stay away from them. The AOE fear upon her arrival can peel your entire team off her, allowing her to delete the target.
Punish
- +is on cooldown (18s early)→If she uses and misses, she has no way to stop her frenzy. Kite her into your tower or into a group of teammates and she is forced to keep running at you.
- +Early Jungle Invades→Because gives her zero health regen, she often clears the jungle at 50-70% HP. High-damage early junglers can catch her at her second buff for an easy kill.
- +Whiffed →Her ultimate has a massive cooldown (120s+ early). If she misses the projectile, she loses her primary cross-map pressure and a massive chunk of her late-game power budget.
- +Berserk Target Selection→When she is in , she attacks the NEAREST target. If she is chasing a carry, a tank can simply walk closer to her to force her to waste her frenzy on them.
Laning Tips
- •Buy Executioner's Calling or Bramble Vest early. Grievous Wounds cuts her effective health by nearly 40% because of and .
- •Listen for the global sound cue when she casts . You have roughly 1-3 seconds to sidestep the projectile depending on distance.
- •If you are marked by , run toward your turret. She cannot control her movement during the frenzy and will often take 1-2 turret shots trying to reach you.
- •Don't stand between her and a wall. Her knockback is predictable; stay in the middle of the lane to avoid the wall stun.
- •Steal her jungle camps. She relies heavily on the sustain from monster camps to stay healthy since she cannot regenerate HP naturally.
- •Ward deeper than usual. She can use from behind her own mid-tower to gank side lanes instantly.
Teamfight Warning
- ⚠Save your hard CC for the moment she reactivates to chomp; if she doesn't get the bite off, she doesn't get the heal.
- ⚠Flash the projectile if you are the priority target. If it misses you, she usually flies into a wall or deep into your team and dies.
- ⚠Spread out slightly when she lands her to minimize the number of people hit by the Fear effect.
- ⚠If she is charging , do not waste your burst. She takes significantly reduced damage during the channel.
- ⚠Prioritize killing her during her frenzy. She is an 'all-in' champion; if you burst her before she gets a second rotation, she is useless.
AI-generated counterplay guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached