She’s super popular, super fun to play, and is seeing play at all skill brackets.
I definitely think she needs some fine tuning – she somehow STILL has a 52/53% winrate in low/mid elo despite REPEATED nerfs patch after patch – but unlike champs like Zeri or K’Sante I don’t think she’s inherently unbalanceable.
She’s had a positive effect on the jungle meta, and obtained a bunch of new OTPs. To me at least, she’s a highlight of 2023, which otherwise had the very forgettable Milio and Naafiri, the latter of which is actively OP at low elo and yet hardly anyone plays her (3% pickrate in silver/gold even with a 54% winrate last patch).
Is she the most positive champion release since Renata?
Yes. I like her feet.
She’s another failed champ due to her kit.
It’s almost impossible to balance.
Diamond and above it’s a coin flip at 15 mins she either has 10 kills or 0 kills.
Horrible champ design.
Garbage champ overall, i dont like playing it, never seen it really 1v9 games, august got the memo this time to not make the next champ a problem for proplay and he delivered making a really boring champ, if august didnt made jhin no one would be sucking his dick everytime to defend him, I think he needs a time off league designing champions team.
Briar is fine, but Yone and K’Sante need to be deleted. It’s like Rito fired their actual balance team and put game balance in the hands of the skin-design team.
Wait till she isn’t OP anymore.
52-53% WR in most elos and that while many people still dont use her lethality build with is still ~3% better than Bruiser.
She is still the best soloQ champ right now. Riot will likely aim for another ~2% lower WR
Typical problem: fun to play with, infuriating to play versus
Unlike a lot of these comments I think her design is perfectly fine and I think she was a good addition. People comparing her to Tryn or Yi are wilding
Honestly, yes. She is way less toxic than Yone, Akali, sylas, samira, evelin and ksante. She is much more predictable and not tilting to play against. She doesn’t feel op like the mentioned champions feel. I don’t mind people playing her. I‘ve never had this 'what a fking bullshit‘ moment. So I’m happy with her.
Champions that avoid death while being able to kill everyone are champions I personally despise. Briar, Ksante, Yummi, are unhealthy IMO. Even though champs like Ori, Syndra, Taliyah who are strong rn aren’t as frustrating to play against because they’re all killable to a certain degree. Briar is just so bs with her life steal/ dmg reduction/ movement. Lethality + HOB makes her destroy squshies with basically 0 counter play
Yes! she’s so fucking hot!
And not too mechanical or complicated. I love playing against her she’s like a warwick on steroids that sometimes gives me free kills under tower.
She only sees play because she is overpowered.
She isnt really that fun to play either. The only thing that makes her fun is how overpowered she is. If you nerf her down to 49% she probably wont be played at all. Cause then you dont auto afk win every fight and it gets frustrating to die without outplay potential
I’m just not sure that’s true. Two other junglers that are very similar to her (but for different reasons) are Nocturne and Warwick, both of which maintain very good play rates at mid and low elo even when they’re sub 50% winrate (like WW is right now - he’s still in the top 10 most played junglers all the way up to gold, despite a 48% winrate).
Briar probably will be received better than Bel’veth but she doesn’t come anywhere near the success of Viego tbh
Sorry but I lost to her once which means she’s a design failure
I wouldn’t call it a success when she needs an abundance of nerfs and she still outperforms in the strongest role in the game. Riot can make new champions that appeal to an audience of people but they certainty have no idea on how to balance them without it taking several months
Reddit challenge: try not to tell everyone Renata is the best recent champ [difficulty: impossible]
spoiler alert: Renata literally was bottom 5 pickrate champions in the game for 9 straight months until she saw some play in worlds, she also had 50% WR. People on subreddit like to gaslight themselves and say she is so cool but when it comes to it, no one fucking plays her
An actual successful new Jungler champ is Viego, has sub 50% WR and is played more than Briar whose playerbase will most likely abandon her if she is ever sub 50% WR.
We are also assuming she will be bad at pro play.
People praise Renata because she’s easy to outplay and she has nearly no dueling power.
People praise Renata because you see her once per 100 games. She is in same tier as Zil. People would ban her a lot, if she was popular.
She has a 6% playrate, which puts her support pool with other standard supports. Looking at the 5%-7% champions:
Lulu
Pyke
Janna
Renata
Karma
Xerath
Bard
Nami
Ashe
Milio
Zyra
Soraka
Alistar
MorganaShe’s not exactly common enough to user your ban on, which is more or less the same with everyone else in that range (maybe morg, she pulls a lot of bans).
Agreed on Viego, his mains are like Kayn mains, super fucking loyal no matter how bad their champ will ever be
people that dont know what they’re doing with her turbo int and people who know what they’re doing with her become unstoppable for some reason, I havent seen a middle ground since so she seems to be very faulty lol