Best LoL Swarm Briar build

Briar is a very strong champion in the new LoL Swarm game mode, bringing some great survivability and plenty of area damage to wipe out hordes of enemies. With the right weapons and passives, she can quickly go from good to great and can protect her teammates from deadly swarms. Here’s the best build for Briar in League of Legends’ Swarm mode.

The best build for Briar in LoL Swarm

Briar’s whole playstyle revolves around getting in, doing massive amounts of damage to a crowd, and getting out before it becomes too overwhelming for her. While this means we want to pick weapons and passives that focus on doing damage, having a few sustain passives can go a long way in making sure you can disengage without going down.

Best Briar weapons

Briar’s primary weapon, Pillory Swipe, is the bread and butter of this build. Each attack swipes in a large area, hitting anything possible while going much faster when using either of Briar’s abilities. This ability evolves off Max Health, while scaling off passives like Damage, Crit Chance, Ability Haste, and Area Size. As such, we’ll want weapons that reflect that:

• Pillory Swipe evolved into Savage Slice (Requires Max Health passive)
• Radiant Field evolved into Explosive Embrace (Requires Max Health passive)
• Cyclonic Slicers evolved into Unceasing Cyclone (Requires Health Regen passive)
• Searing Shortbow evolved into Evolved Embershot (Requires Area Size passive)
• Bunny Mega-Blast evolved into Rabid Rabbit Raindown (Requires Crit Chance passive)

Best Briar passives

As with any good build in LoL Swarm, our passives will revolve around getting those evolutions and playing off what scales for the main weapon, Pillory Swipe. However, that leaves two extra passive slots to play around with, so we’ll go for a few extra stats that can help Briar:

• Max Health
• Health Regen
• Area Size
• Crit Chance
• Ability Haste
• Movement Speed

Besides the evolve-related passives, Ability Haste helps Pillory Swipe, Searing Shortbow, and Bunny Mega-Blast with scaling. Otherwise, Movement Speed reinforces that get-in, get-out playstyle mentioned earlier.

How to unlock Briar in LoL Swarm

To get Briar for yourself, you’ll want to progress past the first map into The Outskirts and survive until you beat Briar. She appears at the 15-minute mark and can be a difficult boss if you’re unprepared. Her main attacks consist of firing out several cones that can cause you to flee, along with launching missiles from the top of the screen downward.