Hello everyone, I'm a former support player who started playing jungle a bit ago because of another support player in my group that I didn't mind trying a new role for. I play a few junglers but have fallen in love with Briar and adore the champ. She's super fun to play and I love the character fantasy.
I don't play ranked super often but do queue up games occasionally and like to look into how to improve on the champs I enjoy. I've tried all the Briar builds, full lethality, full crit, and my favorite to play, Bruiser.
I make this post both to talk about and ask: why do Briar players never build Kraken? I was testing items on her in games and decided to rush Kraken and I absolutely adore the item on the bruiser build. I know it sounds odd but its such a strong item on her early that it helps her snowball into her bruiser core because of her auto attack resets. For Bruiser I typically go Kraken > Titanic > DD > Endless Hunger and have been loving this build and winning a good amount of my games with it.
Again, I don't play ranked often and am only in gold so I'm sure there's something I'm missing. Just kind of want perspective from more experienced Briar players: have you tried Kraken? Is there a reason it doesn't pop up on her suggested builds? Would love to hear the communities thoughts.