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?
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