Briar - What The **** Is This Champion...? | League of Legends
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The next champion in League of Legends is out! And... she's a questionable one at that. Let's see how her gameplay holds out in the next episode of 200 Years or Well Designed: featuring Briar - The Restrained Hunger.
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what's with the feet intro bruh ?
its 100% brain dead champ with no skill expression and being just broken as fuck cuz giving a fk armor pen dash with stune is a fk JOKE
just fk remove this champ and make something that isnt just ONESHOTING OR GETTING ONESHOTED shit
last champions that were design like normal fk champion was:
zeri-she was broken but she wasnt super tanky oneshoter and other staff THIS CHAMP WAS FIXABLE
vex-counter pick but still good design
gwen-they should change a lot about her Q to make her good design and remove her W cuz thats just stupid and is useless or broken ability for her
rell-really good design but she was tank so nobody player her then got OP rework and if they nerf her more she could be in good design
and finally really a fk good design is fk SETT cuz if you have at least few brain cells and you are better then enemy you can outplay him or as sett you can do a lot of staff while having NORMAL abilities that dont make enemy do random shit like renata ult or fk passive from viego or other staff(yea ik his W deals insane amount of dmg but that is because a lot of champions are fk sooooooo broken and getting buffed for no reason that something like sett IS BROKEN but you cant see it because other shit just is on anouther lvl)
btw viego have an okay design with his basic abilities and ult but being able to change to any champion is just stupid extremely stupid
Such smooth transition to the sponsor gotta give u that
Actually you reach video 666 bruh I hate this 666
@@Epicibrahim and of course the 666 gotta be terrifying
Hearing Vars lose his mind at the damage of Briar’s E is like hearing a teacher swear in class
I'm glade Power final made her debut too
Hearing him quietly screaming is hilarious.
the dmg is crazy but i dont see it being able to be done very often
@@douglaswalker7707can u abuse it for jungle clear?
@@victorvondoom4869on an 18 second cooldown, not particularly. Especially because it's meant to be the last skill you upgrade
Id argue that Kled also falls under the berserker archetype. Theres no canceling your ultimate, you are going to the end and if you lock on to a champion, you are going to hit that champion no matter the danger. Then, once you take enough damage to fall off of Skarl you are basically forced to keep fighting to get Skarls courage back or die trying, as you are too slow to run away from enemies with any reliability. Sure youve technically got the self knockback from your pistol, but even then you are encouraged to get right into an enemies face with it to hit as many pellets as possible.
Ya this gives off hard Berserker vibes, I hear she's a Vampire, this is not a Vampire, lol.
He definitely nails the berserker personality lol
@@dylanevans0402 true. She fits more of a homunculus archetype.
And he’s balanced and not brainread
@@dylanevans0402How’s she not a Vampire? There are many Vamoire archetypes, including crazy blood sucking maniac monsters
Briar is what you get when you max out all your favorite stats and ignore everything else in character creation
I don't need health if everything's dead
All speed and atk no evasion or health we go *IN* or die trying
Technically with the(lack of) pillory it’s more like a piece of equipment min maxing your stats. Pillory on? Cha wis int increased by 8. Pillory of? All stats reduce to 0, strength increases by 3x
@@deadpool569You can't kill anything with her
@@rommdan2716 well then I'll die trying
Imagine a briar with a yuumi, a champ that plays itself with a champ that doesnt do abything
LOI League of Idle
"I believe this is the only self hard crowd control in the game"
Sion, after literally stunning himself after hitting a wall: Am I a joke?
(yes)
Malzahar rooting himself with every ult, arguably lissandra with her zhonyas (but that's cheating)
Self activated. Sion's stun isn't a self activation it's people without a driver's license.
and what about all channeled spells, e.g. Malzzahar Ult etc? Those also kinda "stun" the player character@@VarsVerum
@@KellerKind287 You can still stop channels at any time. If you briar w/ult you cannot untaunt yourself unless you have e off cd.
Warwick is a berserker too. Any WW main can tell you the unspoken rule: if you smell a target below 25% HP, you have no choice but to ult them from 2 screens away.
That sponsor transition 💀10/10
And still the sponsor block detected
I LOVE the design and abilities, a self berserking champion with lifesteal is what I’ve been saying Olaf should have been ever since I found him years ago, I just hate how she can’t be played in lane because of just how low her sustain outside of lifesteal is. If any champ will push me to learn jg it’s her.
Jgl is super fun m8, if you want a really fun champ, for up to plat elo, that's relatively easy to learn, try Vi.
People are sleeping on her cuz she isn't really that good in diamond+.
@@AdamTheVox I just don’t wanna bother with learning all the different pathings and gank/drag timings etc. I’m a Trynd main, I just wanna hit things and splitpush
A lot of the time it's just getting the first path down and then taking whatever comes up (and is safe) afterwards. The experience is indispensable though even if you go back to lane you'll be predicting the enemy jungler's movements and map placement and know how to ward against their ganks even better
then play master Yi. he and trynda both buy squishy adc items, farm up and then outduel anyone later on. just farm until level 6 and then kill people it's just like tryndamere but you don't have have to lane against anyone. post 14 minutes you can splitpush too as long as no dragons or barons are up.
I think she will rapidly become a counterpick toplaner or a hypercarry jungler
Wdym she scales like shit
see issue is, her laning is complete and utter dogshit. Her early game is, shockingly enough, kinda dog without items. Every trade she takes is losing, her W ends up getting her killed most of the time, additionally her E is clunky as shit to hit and you're gonna end up inting
Her Toplane is really bad,
Source Tolkin
I think she's early game just like Olaf or WW
With 0 base health regen, she'll be poked out of top lane, all it takes is someone to use abilities well to force her further and further back, making it so she has to all in to gain lane control. Someone like mundo can poke with q and e, olaf with q, etc. etc. Ranged champions will obviously make her life hell until she engages so yeah she can be a counter pick, but then it becomes either a skill match up, or a wait until jungler arrives to win the lane match up
Her Ult also alerts everyone in range so if you suspect that it's going towards you, you can easily move
I have a feeling Briar + Ashe gon be wildin
I made the mistake of trying to challenge the top lane briar with duskblade by letting her hit an ulty under tower and trying to use Varus E to apply grievous and hit an ulty, but her q stunning immediately after letting her get her full combo in less than a 2 seconds makes her have zero counter play for ADC's you need someone with hard cc to deal with her. Shes a global master yi with a stun.
I managed to play her for a while in PBE. Her kit is VERY strong, but the huge problem is that she is actually very weak currently but while also being very stat checky. Her base stats are atrocious, like pre-6 Kayle level bad. The problem arises if she gets fed, which is more likely to happen as a jungle than a laner. If Briar is behind, her base stats make her feel so much weaker than literally anybody else, but if she manages to get ahead she stat checks everyone one-sidedly into oblivion extremely hard. It's feast or famine in a Kayle-level of intensity where she either is useless or 1 v 9's due to the discrepancy between horrific base numbers and how absurdly strong her kit is. She really is going to bounce 55% and 45% WR's back and forth since it varies based simply on if her base stats are buffed or not in a given patch.
I mean isnt the point of her boosted stats to statcheck you? just that she has no other option than go in
@@Bubbble_Bear not his point, read it again
In other words, she's either useless or 1v9s and also a skirmisher. When was the last time Riot released a jungler that does not fit this description?
@@gcavaresiivern?
Rn it's at less than 35% 💀
I like how this champion (mostly) doesn’t feel overly designed. Akshan is the best example of this in recent years, but a lot of new champions feel designed to play perfectly in LoL in 202X without anything special going on, making them all feel weirdly samey. They’re jam packed with QOL passives and stuff that makes the champion “just work” whereas with briar they actually seemed to make a reasonably janky character with drawbacks.
Lmao Akshan. The dude has invisibility, a get away/ all in while hittinh mechanic. Double auto that hit extra hard. Can revive a team mate instantly and ia tanky despite being adc
@@Yokai_Yuri literally batman
@@chas5344Akshan and Rakan on your team is like Batman and Robin. This is canon now.
@@Yokai_Yuriakshan is a Marksman, not an adc. Not every ranged ad champ must be an adc
@@lok4890 no, you're simply wrong. Adc is short for "Attack Damage Carry." There's no difference between adc and Marksmen, they litterally made it up so people unfamiliar to mobas might understand the goals of the adc. There's a reason mid used to be called the Apc.
Except for a bit of number changes, I think her kit is fine and very suited for her lore. Can’t wait to play her
The R impact damage being AoE might be a bit too pushy, but on the other hand, if they ever want to actually do something with her AP ratios (useless text box filler ATM), they absolutely need to give her P heal and W AP ratios, too. Her body numbers are actually surprisingly bad, but it fits with the berserk buffs and I have to say that her kit is really interesting, when compared to other recent releases (Renata was great, too).
Steroid R that deals fuck ton of AoE dmg and has guaranteed CC is not balanced at all.
This guy loves feet.
For self inflicted cc, champ who create terrain can technically knockback themselves, bard can stasis himself.
And stasis is technically a hard cc
By that logic, every champ can hard CC themselfes with Zhonias/Stopwatch.
Absolutely stellar sponsor transition, A++ for sure 😂😂😂
You have such a calm voice when you are doing videos so it was sooo funny to hear your pitched voice. Love your videos.
Something I find interesting about her passive and the lack of health regen is that it's actually relevant for items, too. Take Heartsteel for example, it has +200% Base Health Regen... which on Briar is 200% of 0, so you still don't regen any health from it. Any items with health regen do nothing for her (at least in that context), it has to be an actual healing passive like a Warmog's when over the bonus health threshold.
If I'm not mistaken, this is unique to her? Both Vlad and Zac have a base health regen, so they can still build regen items to have some (slow) sustain without entering combat. Briar is the only one in the game with an actual 0 for that value.
ocean drakes dont heal her either strange enough
Here we are 2 months later and we are on nerf 5 and she still has a 54% win rate
They haven't nerfed her? They gave her a hp scaling
Great video as usual Vars, but i'd like to make a suggestion. I think you should make a video about boots, going through the history of the item and how it changed so much through the years, why does it have to be in almost every single game, etc. I think this item is great designed and also an iconic mechanic in the game, really worth to get a video just for itself.
I have a feeling that she'll be completely busted initially, but then in a matter of few weeks people will learn how to play around her, and she'll be forgotten. Her main damage source is technically out of your control, which prevents the likes of Yorick, Illaoi, Urgot, Azir, etc. from being popular.
I hope this doesn't age well, because I'm such a huge fan of her abilities. She seems so much fun.
seems like she will have a similar status as tryndamere: mostly unplayed by the general fanbase, but with a few dedicated mains who can carry games
I don't know your server and elo, but Yorick and Illaoi are unfortunately too popular in my soloQ games and are possibly, along with Teemo, the top laners that make lose my mind the most when picked either by my team or by my opponent. I'm not counting crit champions that start with the letter Y, though.
Dude just talking about the visual design.. her r is the most BAD ASS r EVER
illaoi, yorick, and urgot curb stomp everyone in lower elos, I cant go 10 games without facing one of them, and azir has been a mainstay in professional play forever.
Azir doesn't have anything on his kit that's out of his control, soldier placement and repositioning is his bread and butter, it's not like Illaoi tentacles that spawn randomly or Yorick ghouls with sometimes wonky AI
That's kind of the impression I get is she'll either be turbo broken or giga useless, no in between. I worry that one small change will completely break this champ
She's the ultimate feast or famine champ, if Yasuo and Katarina are either 0/10 or 10/10, Briar is 0/30 or 30/0
I like how he screams discretely, like he's afraid he will wake up a sleeping baby in the room near him 😂
More like a child that doesn't want to wake up his parents but yea lmfao
I’m hyped, might actually get back into league to pick up briar. A true blue ride or die champion from the jungle seems like a ton of fun.
she seems fun for about 50% of games, but if this champ falls behind noone on your team is having fun playing with you
Odd take that E doesn't count as a disengage because enemies can get out of it, if it forces them out of your immediate area isn't that usually fairly effective for disengaging?
I think briar is actually quite fun charging into the enemy team and trying to heal as much as you can so you dont die. It kind of feels like rhaast
SMOOTH sponsor transition there Vars. Evelynn would be proud. WP mate
So funny hearing how proud Vars was with the segue from Briar's hunger to his sponsor
really good transition for sure
Always a good day when Vars uploads
subbing for the transition to the sponsored portion of the video
This guy is the ONLY RUclipsr I have to put closed captions or turn up volume to max in order to understand
My only gripe is that for a global ult, they gave the enemy a notification that she ulted while she channels it. Its already a difficult Ult to hit, and no other global Ult like Ashe’s Arrow, Jinx Rocket, or even Vex’s Ult which Brair’s is inspired by gives a notification on when they fire it.
For a skill shot that is meant to “instill fear”, giving an indication of it coming doesn’t actually fit that description
It's not that hard to hit it, you won't hit it each time but lanes are straight lines so in tf you won't really miss
3:40 Xerath self roots when casting his ult. this was a thing even before his gameplay update when his current ult was his old w
ngl i’ve gotten real cold with chilling scream timing. its perfect in the middle of a fight mid late game when they don’t see it coming and ive used it to knock people back when needing to escape and then W thru a wall and go around to catch them from behind
i think one of the best moments of my day was hearing Vars lose his mind over briar’s e damage percentage
Lee Sin sonic wave forces you into using resonation strike to follow up regardless of situation. It’s a mental CC placed on the player.
Great breakdown! Feel like I understand the archetype, the design choices, and the gameplay style much better after this.
Top tier content 😮
I really love var's minor meltdown at her e xD i laughed my ass off
Self induced CC is somewhat uncommon in League, but there are a lot of technical CCs and oddities
The main self CCs I can think of are:
Rumble silences himself at max heat
There’s Blitz W slow
Vi has a self slow on her Q
Kayle used to CC herself when casting ult, she was effectively disarmed and silenced.
You could count old (and to a lesser extent new) Neeko. With the self induced stun.
OrVi ult counting as a self knock up that an enemy Yasuo can ult off of
But some technical self CCs I can think of are:
Malzahar and Warwick suppression CCs themselves as well if you want to count them.
Kalista can technically CC herself and one of her teammates by black spearing them in a level 1 fight.
a lot of abilities self root when casting as well. Like most hooks, Gwen Q (her E is hardcoded to break this though), fiora parry, etc.
Master Yi also roots himself when he heals (W?). That fulfills Vars' definition of a "self activated CC", Xerath's ult also roots him in place now that I think about it.
I love how the title gives so little yet much information
From my experience with her, the reason why her "no health regen" on her passive matters, is because this forces her to either be super aggressive to have reliable sustain, where sometimes this isn't possible if you play her "smart" to avoid ganks or range characters, making it so you have less access to minions, or having to periodically waste your E as a form of sustain... which if you get the timing wrong, can screw you royally should a forced encounter occur.
Her kit makes her great when she has any form of backup, but greatly reduces her options when she is alone or outnumbered. Great for a jungler and, under the right conditions, a good top lane partner, but not top lane solo.
I'm imagining Briar's passive in an ability draft mode. Wonder if it'd apply on ability dots.
Briar liandry to stack bleeed
Think my favorite part of Vars videos is I almost always recognize the music. Guess we have the same taste in games!
for your pleasure the music used in this video is danganronpa V3 ost beautiful lie
Rumble also revolve around the tradeoff of powerfull spell against self silencing
11:58, her W heals her for a huge chunk and her E gives her both damage resist and max% health healing. She can stall fights just fine.
Btw on the topic of self cc there is still rumble who self silences himself when reaching his full passive heat bar.
Ok, props for that factor transition.
What makes Briar so broken isn't only her insane damage. Her E makes engaging on her impossible. Meaning she's super hard to punish unless she ints with her W
I like how accessible you make these videos to people who don't play much league like me
i can already see shadowflame and spirit visage in her build either cooked up in korea or becoming popular in general
1:00 One of the best ADD inserts I have ever witnessed, so fucking clean xdd.
"who is crazy enough to inflict status effects on them self for any reason" *equips 3 berserker rings in rpgs*
I like how Vars used the new Olaf R icon
My favorite thing about Briar is that she has very clear and obvious weaknesses baked into her design.
The only trick is that Riot needs to make those weaknesses matter...
Hey, I have a question for you.
Do you think that implementing enough anticarries with full support (runes, items) could balance the game?
My logic is if you have potential to heavily counter the whole team if they rely on burst, dashes/ diving you may just force the meta to more bapance and less frustrating state
Ok that sponsor placement was very solid got a good chuckle outta me
I think it all depends on how well she can build tank items. Both Olaf and Mundo are best building Tank and Tryn or someone like Yi have invurability to make up for building full dmg.
I appreciate the Danganronpa V3 background music ❤
She’s a cool champ, cool design and pretty unique gameplay with how you click a button then you fully commit
Ive never sniffed my computer screen so hard until a few moments ago when the video started thx i needed that!
The only way they could make a champion more reckless and devoid of self preservation than Olaf and Kled was to just straight up Berserk themselves
That sponsor transition deserves more attention 🤣, way too smooth
No idea if this has been stated before but Ziggs was the only champion who could self-apply hard crowd control, a knock-up from his W - Satchel Charge
Feet intro? 😳
Vars been into the pits of darkin folk for that photo
Feet
Great gateway into the add XD
i like to think vars has a sleeping cat next to him in every video and thats why he can't make a lot of noise lmao
I personally would like to see a video on economy affecting champions. Like champions that can generate extra exp or gold for the team or themselves.
So Tf, Gp, Nilah, ZIlean and Pyke.
I may have an idea for a team comp
the segway into the sponsor was top tier
I do like Briar because she feels like one of the few new champs that you can actually play around against.
She's insanely fun to play. Been also trying hwr out as support and every game is a clusterfuck and a love it
Briar is the personification of why I quit ranked long ago but why I still love playing ARAM.
Elaborate?
how can you have a problem with this champ ?
@@aidangillard2041 Changes/additions/systems/abilities that are to the detriment of the game's balance but are fun to see in an environment with short games and no stakes.
"To the detriment of the game's balance" doesn't necessarily equal something being OP. What that means is the thing in question is conceptually unbalancable because it lacks a balance lever that could be adjusted. Briar is a perfect example of this since the entire character is designed around the idea of losing control of the champ, making her gameplay very unpredictable and inconsistent, in exchange for having a kit even more overloaded than K'sante's. It'll be fun seeing the chaos she brings to 4fun modes, but whoever came up with the idea of Briar, would get insta-failed in a uni game design class for it.
@@vencelfoldi8236 yeah, you might be right. If I remember, I'll respond again once I've played against her a decent amount in ranked
@@vencelfoldi8236 Thank you for the well worded response, as well as a clarification with regards to what you meant. very rare to see such well written replys.
Nunu & Willum technically inflict a very brief stun on themselves upon running a snowball into terrain,
Love the v3 BGM I'm vibing hard
That's such a perfect sponsor spot btw. What a fit ahahaha
Self inflicted CC any chaneling (MF, Kartus, Nunu, Xerath ultimate...)
Bard ult, Liss ult
I wish your videos were louder, they're so much quieter than all other videos I listen to
I really like her design and kit tbh. I'm not a jungle player, heck the only role I dont wanna play but when she got released I tried playing her in Jungle and I enjoyed it. I've been spamming her in solo q as a jungle player haha
Vel'Koz has a self-root on ult. That said good on you for remembering Blitz W has a self-slow.
I’m kind of confused how Warwick didn’t end up as an example of a berserker being the first champ that came to mind. He can only latch with his q making it near useless as an escape tool. His ult is designed to suppress backline targets. he gets stronger while near death not to mention passive lifesteal. Most even play him in this super rundown play style and the example used for running someone down without pressing a key is warwick.
Sion ultimate does self-inflict a 0.5s stun when crashing into terrain, so this isn't the only way to hard CC yourself
I'm so excited about briar bypassing all my wards, tp to me as adc AND have my sup feared while she shreds what little health I might still have while she instaheals all damage...
she is the ultimate "i can fix her" champion, you will be begging your team not to dodge when you lock this out of control animal.
"I believe this is the only self hard crowd control in the game"
Does Lissandra Ult count as a self hard CC?
Would building Warmog's on her give her passive healing; or does her passive stop any and all passive healing? Like Grasp or Second Wind?
I would argue that Warwick is a Berserker since I need to follow the blood trail and no tower or fountain will stop me
Grassless design is a term i want more usage of
Besides her splash art, I really like her design a lot
Yeah the splash really did drop the ball.
come on we know you like the feet
Wdy guys mean? I keep hearing that and also the somewhat questionable petite design"
But like Huh? What's wrong with someone a bit petite type build?
@@toobig7150 Her build in the splash art is not the biggest problem. It's her face and head. The proportions are of a child. The eyes are very big for the head size, and the squished head also looks like a child.
It's not the case for the cinematic and the in-game model.
And that's not even touching the feet in focus stuff.
@@1Henrink idk what kind of childs you know of, she dont looks like a child to me at all.
Even then, whats wrong with that? i mean no offense, but she looks like a petite woman, bit young looking but thats it, and even then its fictional, if you ask me almost everyone (maybe not for illiaoi?) look young in the game, like no one goes beyond the 22-25 mark.
The more vids I watch the more I learn Briar was made for me and me alone. I am forever grateful🦶🏻
3:40 Bard wants to ult your location
3:44 Sion stuns himself if you crash into a wall
Well by that logic if you dash into poppy's E you get stunned so also any dash is a self CC.
I'd guess then that the self CC is something you "control" and it's not reliant on external factors for its normal use. Yes, Sion stunts himself, but is hitting a wall its intended function/utility? No, it's a side effect.
Briar can miss ulti and not have anything near during w and no cc effect occurs (again, missing is not its intended function). But hitting a target sets off the cc, while with Sion it's a cc effect on the target long enough to chain a charged Q, even if you have a slight delay after contact to charge Q it's not a self CC in that circumstance.
@@VictorPerez-vu1fo the poppy's W argument doesnt make sense, poppy is an external factor completely external to how the ability intrinsically works
the ability has the intrinsic fact that if you hit a wall you get CC'd
Also hitting a wall is part of its intended utility cause towers are walls
she's awesome love her but only now after 7 months started playing her
hehe changed my main now from Fiddle to Briar :P
You ever see that clip of Zwag playing her and missing ult but hitting the enemy Yone top lane by accident and still killing him?
Although obviously a little different, technically Bard's ultimate and Yone's E hard cc themselves. Maybe Lissandra could be seen as one too?
Yeah btw you can use her q on teammates and plants so it can be used for disengage
with how short the range on it is i think its mostly a way to gapclose towards enemies (like a lee sin w) rather than disengange, it costs health and doesnt keep you out of danger if you are on frenzy
@@jordanmaldonado8784 yeah sure but there are uses where it would be a uselfull disenganment tool
"Infinitely better version of tryndamere"
Tryndamere: SAY HELLO TO MY +50 RANGE
even Vars fell upon the feet meme 💀
03:44 rumble can silence himself and bard can ult himself but idk if that counts
The way she was chasing lillia is crazyy eep
I like the design of briar cuz its something new without having a whole thesis to read on each ability + no actual stupid shit like revives or stealth but just a fuckton of damage