On Aug. 30, Riot Games finally introduced the next League of Legends <\/em>jungler\u2014Briar. As wild and untamed as she is, Briar is expected to land on Summoner\u2019s Rift with a bang, especially because she holds incredible potential to break the game.<\/p>
It\u2019s no secret that Riot has been creating champions with overloaded kits for the past couple of years. Take, for example, Akshan: He has stealth, a shield, a swing, on-hit effects, and the ability to resurrect his entire team. Viego is no different: He has stealth, a reset mechanic, innate healing, a dash, invulnerability, and two hard forms of CCs.\u00a0<\/p>
Briar, however, takes gaming and jungling<\/a> in League <\/em>to a whole different level. She has:<\/p>
- at least four sources of healing in her kit<\/li>
- armor break<\/li>
- three dashes<\/li>
- point-and-click stun<\/li>
- attack speed and movement speed steroid<\/li>
- bonus damage dealt based on missing health of enemies<\/li>
- slow<\/li>
- knock-back that stuns enemies if they hit a wall<\/li>
- fear<\/li>
- additional armor, magic resist, and movement speed from Certain Death (R)<\/li> <\/ul>
This, even when listed like this, is a lot to process, not to mention the headache you\u2019ll get when you have to read through her novel-long tooltips<\/a>. The only mechanics that are missing from her kit are stealth, resets, and invulnerability. When you pair all of Briar’s abilities<\/a> with items like Sterak\u2019s Gage, Spirit Visage, and Death Dance, she could truly become an unstoppable and blood-hungry killing machine that’s impossible to stop.\u00a0<\/p>
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Briar will have incredibly powerful ganking potential. Image via Riot Games<\/figcaption><\/figure> Related: New LoL<\/em> champ Briar originally had broken \u2018suicide-self-revive-wombo-combo\u2019 ultimate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>
If you ask me, Briar\u2019s future seems clear: She will roll out with Patch 13.18 in September<\/a>, dominate the game if she manages to slide through the pick-and-ban phase, and most likely meet hotfix nerfs on her first day. She will also be a nightmare to balance for pro play and will most likely meet the same destiny as Akali with Riot slowly stripping her of her abilities. Hopefully, I will be proved wrong.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
