Briar·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Briar Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Hail of Blades as your keystone, followed by Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Youmuu's Ghostblade as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and The Collector. For your last 3 items, you should build Lord Dominik's Regards, Prowler's Claw and finish with Guardian Angel. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 56.0% winrate over 31 914 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Armor as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Stridebreaker as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Black Cleaver as a third item. You want to finish the build with Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance and Guardian Angel. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 53.0% win rate across 12 416 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Briar Jungle build in the current patch, try Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace as your primary rune tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Armor as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Goredrinker as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Black Cleaver as third item. The last 3 options are Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance and Guardian Angel. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 53.4% win rate over 5 841 matches played.

Situational Briar Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Briar build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.