Briar lost some of her luster in the new season and as someone with ample counter-play, she deserves to win more games than she currently does. We want to make sure her lifesteal-focused durability can manifest by giving her enough health and resists to make that healing efficient and while we're here, we're also throwing top lane Briar a bone by letting her trade more efficiently as well.

Despite her lack of self-control, Briar's been tearing it up as one of the highest performing junglers at lower ranks for a bit now. We're looking to tap down her power to bleed out enemies with her passive at max stacks, as effective kiting (and thus lower stack counts) are more common at higher ranks.

Briar's ultimate is a little too hard to hit, especially against aware players. While it's intended that the spell has high counterplay, we wanted to ensure smart Briar players are able to find situations where it is much more in their favor to land. To do this, we're delaying the global warning sound until after the 1 second cast time, which should make R much easier to hit when cast at nearby enemies from out of vision. To compensate, we're nerfing her damage a bit as she's quite strong right now and doesn't have room for a straight buff. We also took this chance to move Q back to physical damage for all you lethality enjoyers out there.

In this patch we've got one bugfix and one small buff for Briar. While the Q bugfix is pretty straightforward, we're adjusting her R to make her CC immune during the post missile cast time which should help resolve any issues that occurred if Briar was CC'd before her dash.

We've hunted down some awkward bugs on Briar that should improve how she feels to play.

Briar was one of the most-affected champions from Blade of the Ruined King's recent nerf. We like the item's new state, so it's time for us to re-tune champions bound to it. Briar deserves a bit of help here so we're increasing her durability to help her survive being berserk and disproportionately affect her early game, and thus higher MMRs, where she performs much worse.

Briar continues to be very strong in lower skill levels so we're taking another pass at her to address this. The bug fixes to Sundered Sky (one of her core items) were a contributor to some of her power, so we're nerfing her sustained output while giving another minor buff to Q for skilled players who like switching targets and cosplaying Lee Sin hopping to wards.

Briar is currently struggling to find her footing in higher skill brackets of play while also overperforming in lower skill brackets. We’re introducing some skill level skewed nerfs and throwing a bone to Briar players who want to cosplay as Lee Sin.

Briar continues to devour her opposition in the jungle as players continue to get better at her, so we need to pull her power back a bit more. While we're nerfing all her builds with these changes, we're targeting lethality builds more. To that end, we're shifting R to magic damage and throwing in a buff to her attack speed ratio. With the attack speed ratio change, Briar's overall attack speed will be higher when building Stridebreaker, while staying close to the same on builds that don't purchase any attack speed. This should help make up for the nerf to W.

Despite the nerfs, Briar keeps performing better patch over patch as players continue to learn and master her. So we're back to tap her power down in a way that will leave her less oppressive than before. With these changes we're continuing our attempt to close the gap between lethality and fighter builds. Lower health means she'll have to be more reliant on bonus health from other sources, and lower burst damage decreases lethality's relative value in favor of longer fighter patterns.

As players have improved (and inted less) as Briar, she's continued to climb the ranks as a jungler. We're seeing all of her builds overperform at the moment but specifically her lethality builds. Ability damage and armor shred both synergize with lethality, which is why we've chosen these nerfs, hoping to bring her fighter and lethality builds closer together in power.

After the jungle changes last patch, Briar emerged as one of the big winners. We like how she feels to play in the early game, so instead of making adjustments there we’re looking to reduce how well she scales with damage to stop her from snowballing out of control (ironic for a champion that constantly frenzies, right?). We’ve also seen some players trying out Briar in the top lane, so we’re buffing up her passive healing to give her some more reliable access to sustain when not in the jungle.

While Briar on release looked quite weak, her power level has increased as players have learned the in(t)s and outs of her kit and item builds. We're reducing her healing once she gets a few items, especially against jungle monsters, to give opponents a better shot at bringing down a fed Briar. On top of that, we're adding a host of quality of life changes and bug fixes, including a frenzy bar! Now it should be easier to tell how much time is left to activate Snack Attack.

I once heard someone say they're having "friends for dinner." And people say I'M hungry! Eat your fill with Briar on September 13, 2023 at 21:00 UTC.