Briar·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Briar Top build, you should take Teleport and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Press the Attack as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Bone Plating and Overgrowth in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Blade of The Ruined King as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Black Cleaver. For your last 3 items, you should build Sundered Sky, Sterak's Gage and finish with Overlord's Bloodmail. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 56.8% winrate over 1 072 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Teleport and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Press the Attack as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Sudden Impact with Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Eclipse 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 Blade of The Ruined King, Sundered Sky and Death's Dance. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 56.0% win rate across 241 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Briar Top build in the current patch, try Teleport and Ignite 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 Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Blade of The Ruined King as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Black Cleaver as third item. The last 3 options are Sundered Sky, Sterak's Gage and Death's Dance. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 49.0% win rate over 157 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.