Briar's Voice Lines Explained 

Sion was so annoying it gave briar an existential crisis 😂

I'm honestly gutted that she doesn't have any interactions with Rell. The two characters who are explicitly living weapons that Noxus made through questionable means. It'd be fun to hear them bounce ideas/experiences off one another.

Since she's "weapon made by Black Rose" she could have an interaction to Rell. You know the orther girl that escaped after Black Rose did something to her to make her stronger

I think they just needed to add interactions with Swain and Leblanc at least. But I would have love to see interactions with Fiddlesticks, Warwick and Dr Mundo since they are some of the scariest creepy champions and clear references of classic monsters. The Vampire, Werewolf, Frankenstein, haunted scarecrow.

It baffles me that after all these years I sometimes hear quotes from Tahm Kench that I never heard before while Kai’sa just grunts and moans, and also I guess she can count…

I think we can all agree that her voice actress did a phenomenal job. The "Sion tastes like leather. BLEH" and "Let's compare fangs Vlad" are probably two of my favourite quotes I've ever heard.

I mean, she need more interactions because her whole character is someone who wants to meet everyone and pair that with her being a living weapon where there's already like multiple living weapon characters (like Rell, Zac & the Darkin) its just a big shame completely.

Omg we need fanfiction of Briar following Talon around without him wanting to and ruining his stealth

Necrit Skipped Stories: Trouble - Annie Remember Me - Karma The Spear of Targon(Updated version) - Pantheon Child of Zaun - Urgot Big Head, Bad News - Sett The Will of the Dead - Yorick/Illaoi

Lets not forget that the reason we stopped having actual Interactions and additional voicelines since probably Samira was all because league wanted to listen to pro players complains that the voicelines were too ¨annoying¨ to keep listening to and supposedly this is why we stopped getting voicelines and cool interactions like we used to which again, sad thing, the voicelines is what makes a character interesting and intruiging, the lore.. overall sad choices league is still firm on apparently, idk why everyone acts so surprise since its been happening for a while now.

Since there is a talk about Dota, In dota if you ping SS (enemy missing) the Hero actually voices "name of lane" is missing e.g. "middle is missing" if you are on mid and ping ss, or "bottom is missing" or "top is missing" depending where you are when you ping ss, and they even have variations so it doesnt sound the same , "middle is missing" or "missing middle" its easier if you just check on the dota2 wiki, and everyone in the team hears that voice line Also having the champions LITERALLY say "lane is missing" and everyone hearing that is much better than just the ping sound which ppl use it more for WTF ARE YOU DOING more than for SS and there is also a "thanks" option in the ping wheel and the hero just says thanks, (kinda like the overwatch emote wheel) and i think that is waaay better since league doesnt have voice chat.

"people that laments of champion talking too much" is such a bad crafted corporate bullshit, some suits just saw a graph and said cut voice over budget

League coming out with something new and not bad at this point is like a miracle

at 14:56 she mentions her hair. In the champion insight, it was mentioned "Even the ombre in her hair is a nod to the fact that Briar probably isn’t the most tidy eater. No, when she feeds, her hair dangles down into the pool of blood surrounding her meal."

I feel she should have interactions with the darkin. Like a joke voice line where she calls them her grandparents or something

Rarity? Nah, that might've worked back when they were still small and their tech wasn't as good as today, but nowadays it's the norm to have a lot of interactions, it gives the character personality and sense of, like you said, interconnectivity within the world of runeterra. Isn't briar supposed to be this "experience the world after being locked up for so long" kinda character? It should be reflected through her interactions because it makes sense for her. Riot is just making excuses and we all know it.

People complaining about voice lines length? Man I'm happy with Shaco having 40 seconds of voice lines.

@Necrit The attacking Gromp voiceline is a reference to Gromp eating the mushroom in the jungle to empower it. Gromp is covered in mushroom dust.

I want to see how Talon and Briar interact in the Lore, also, a visual update and some new lines would be cool for Talon

I think its cute that Necrit has so much faith in Riot doing those things on purpose for the benefit of the players... but its pretty clear they just dont really care much. Like, we're not even asking for item interactions (that were GREAT and showed even more personality), we are asking for her to have basic interactions with 2 of the MOST IMPORTANT characters on her story Its hard to argue they care about it and not just low budgeting everything... specially considering the Varus and Nidalee voicelines thing. Making her have less voicelines doesnt make the ones she has special, because most other champions have WAY more, she feels lesser, not better

Okay by the way can we just mention that the voice actor for Briar did fucking AMAZING. The growl, anger, psychotic energy, etc. So incredible.

Voice actors are paid more the more lines they record so yes necrit, it is about money

The problem is not the lack of interactions in itself. The problem is that based on those interactions we can expand our knowledge of the lore, we can know what are the most important interactions between champions and why. We had basically 0 lore released lately which makes this lack of interactions even worse. For example if Akshan had no interactions with other champs it wouldn't matter because the whole ruination event gave us a lot of lore from other sources.

Having little voicelines is very tiring when you play a character a lot. When you play something like Aurelion or Kayn constantly, you'll usually hear voicelines you haven't heard in the last three games, and some games where you just spam ctrl 1 or 2 it feels like some champions have infinite taunt quotes, which ended around Kai'sa's release.

Claiming less is more because it feels special only works if we assume more doesn't feel special at all. We have already got more, and it was more special than 3 quickliners.

It seems that Briar's story shares some similarities with Nimona's from the Netflix film but somehow in a kind of more dark way. Even from the release trailer, it's aesthetic appears to be just like the film, with graffiti and a colorful vibe. The facial expressions, featuring sharp and overall crazy movements (like when nimona is escaping from the prison), are also similar to Nimona. Both Briar and Nimona are ancient creatures with immense power, yet they remain eager to learn and explore the world. also the way Briar interacts with Talon looks like the knight from Nimona-both praise and express a desire to learn while also poking fun at the other character. unfortunately , we don't have many more interactions to analyze in greater depth. In any case, the stories of both characters are strikingly similar. Despite their dark aesthetics, both came from lower social classes, but their lives took a drastic turn when they were accepted into a service serving the elite. both had their masters betrayed and killed by someone they trusted, marking the beginning of their respective journeys that led them to find the mains characters. but I think that the similarities between them end there so it's more like a coincidence than a anything else.

I've always liked having a character with a ton of lines as a new player because it got me to learn the lore of characters I would have never looked up before!

It's sad to hear how Riot wants to cut down on the number of voice lines new champions have. It's unfair to compare 2022-2023 characters to dinosaurs, but after playing mostly Alistar you can get tired of only hearing "Stampede" "I know the way" and "Nothing can hold me back" over and over. Does the lack of voice interactions make that cow any less fun to play ? No. But could he be updated in the future to have more polygons and more than 5 non-shout or non-death voice lines even with different voice actor ? Yeah, that would be nice. Although his lore is limited and the character does not represent an edgy guy or a sexy girl, Alistar the Minotaur also deserves some love.

Sion was indeed the one who was locked up in the same prison as Briar. It is confirmed. When the teasers were still going on in the client, I decided to AFK for about 1 hour in front of her cell each phase to listen to what she has to say, and iirc starting from phase 2, there was an interaction between them, where Sion started with "This... hunger... it gnaws..." (a Sion voiceline, and it was also Sion who said it, just slightly distorted), to which Briar responded "You're not the only one whose hungry, Sion!". This was one of the few lines that had voice acting.

Riot: we want a special interaction voice line to feel unique, it gives the character a lot more flavor... So we do that by cutting back on the number of voice lines so when you DO have that interaction you hear the same thing over and over again

The connection to Talon sounds more like she worked with Talon before, since we know Talon is loyal to Marcus and Marcus works with/for the Black Rose.

I love champions with many many interactions. For example Zoe bought me with her voicelines and now I am maining her. Kinda sad that when she'll get a legendary it won't have much voicelines like base skin. Also, do you guys remember when first skin for champ had unique voicelines for their first skin. Zoe is another example or night bringer aphelios or cyber camile

i like how briar is just some fun goofball at times and at other times is a blood thirsty killing machine

Am I the only one who's heavily reminded of Gollum(the character, not the game) from Briar's quotes? It's not really a back and forth but the two moods still contrast strongly and much like Gollum often talks about death and killing, Briar's frienzy mode does too. And Smeagol being curious and childish also reflects well in "normal" Briar.

I honestly do prefer the fewer and more meaningful interactions than just pumping a character full of "hey there mr champion I've never met in lore, you're a rock."

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Isnt it weird for Sion, who is like a war machine to be in the same place as her? I would imagine Sion having a whole prision only to retain him. Or maybe he is in a very lower deep level and she can hear his loud af screams, but they dont really tell u much

I'd rather see some more unique voice lines between champs, if they want to have unique lines trigger less often, make the requirements to trigger them a higher bar.

"Briar needs more interactions" almost all champs from 2020-2023 needed.

I remember when I first heard lux say she was sona's biggest fan. It felt really special. I think it only comes up with you as a support lux against a Sona support

As a talon main I cannot explain to you how fuckin excited I was to hear voice interactions with him

Hitting them before they hit you is guile there Necrit. Definitely takes "strength" to be the last one standing.

Her voice seems incredibly familiar I can't pinpoint it quite though, they should really more publicly credit VOs

"Tryndamere, my greatest creation; this one's rage will shape the world." - Old Aatrox

I am all fine with Briar, had the marriage documents all filled out and finished already. She is perfect for me.

When predators lick some kinds of toads the reaction can be very bad for them. Licking toads causes sneezing, and for thing at the mouth, and sometimes death for small animals like cats

Now we have Cho's nom nom and Briar's nom nom

This video had more innuendos than one would think..

I'd presume it's common knowledge but as we've started using handshakes less over time in favour of fist bumps and other interesting greetings, the reason you shake hands with your right hand is because you'd normally wear your sword or dagger on your left hip, making it harder to attack your opponent at close quarters, when your dominate swash buckling hand is filled with another's it's fair reasonable to assume you are safe

The voice actress... holy canon minion, she is on fire! I mean she really is pulling this off sooooooo good!

Most atrocious thing about voiceline in League are the new heroes that you hear even as ally or oponent, I absolutely can´t stand to play against Zeri and Seraphine for example just because I have to listen to their annoying voice

As of around 11 pm pacific on the 7th briar is confirmed to sleep per an instagram post

Now I just want a short minigame that's just Talon trying to avoid Briar but she just keeps popping up and following him around.

14:12 My question is can she actually read? Being a living weapon doesn't necessitate being literate and she describes the written words in books as "squiggly lines." She also doesn't say she reads the books, but that she looks at their contents. As an aside, she becomes more powerful by looking at the insides of books? What she do, find a magic library or something?

Some other games have a toggle option for voiceline rates. I imagine they could implement the same or similar system and give the players control of their experience.

I think she's an assasin agent that's only let loose when there's a target and not a murderer out in the streets of Noxus.

She is sniffing for the suores of gromp mushrooms, orrrrr can be his mushroons mutantions

Some champs that know a lot about the other champs. Like swain should have a lot of voice lines. But Briar who spent a lot of her life in prison would not make sense to know about the other champs.

her voice is adorable as hell

necrit you are the lore dude.

She is having cool voice lines that fit her, but that's true she could get more, like talking to some noxians as rell, leblanc, swain, ... But also she could juste have voiceline for "all places champion", like making a general voiceline against all demacians, all shurima, all freldjord saying things like "cold blood, tadte like sun, ..." They juste could have done a bit more without doing a lot i guess

meanwhile the best line "Ok" only 1 sec long.

12:10 Is it just only me or it sounded like he said "skibidi"🤣

she is the only champion that knows talon exist's and i am happy about it.

only 4 mins into the video but honestly i like the idea of the voice interactions being rarer- it makes the game more immersive if the characters only interact properly with people theyd actually know and have history with unless its baby characters like yuumi milio or annie making unfiltered observation comments like innocent little kids often do irl

the amount of voice lines should fit the champ. briar having few makes sense, she doesnt know anyone. aurelion sol having a lot makes sense, he is the universe, he gets to yap

Her pillory line is my new favourite line : )

The hair is fading out of blood line isn't a reference to frenzy it's a reference to the fact her hair dips into gore of whoever she's eating dying it pink and red when it dries.

Gromp used to have a poison mechanic. that's where the gromp line comes from

She was imprisoned, she doesn't have any knowledge of anything outside her cell save for her 2 missions she was deployed in both of which she massacre her team, hence the imprisonment. She's only stepping out into the world for the first time at the end of her cinematic.

10:36 Katarina: Don't get him involved with your sick twisted experiment shit!

Gromp is a toad/frog that jumps onto a shroom and grows by the power of it, and yes, it is a drugs joke, just, when you try to eat a raw mooshroom, it usually let's out a lot of spores

She did have a line in her in client teaser about seeing a raven with a bunch of eyes so it is weird there's no interactions with swain

I love her so much! She's so cute!

She is kinda cool. I like her funky walk

"Briar likes talon's sharp blades" oh no. Jax main.

Helped me create a BG3 and DND character based on her thanks so much

That's a good thing that the champions don't talk too much about their lore

idk, i main aatrox, and i have voice audio setting on 100, i couldnt play him without his voice lines

The licking toad thing is because some toad species "sweat" hallucinogenic substances through their skin as a defence measure, which is how people got high before we invented chemistry.

She was locked up what interactions do you want from a prisoner??????

meanwhile legendary skins have 20 minutes of voice lines and tons of interactions

well Briar talking about the whole licking the gromp and makeing her sneeze. might just be as you said, about the whole licking a toad to get a high. and well it was a practice done and idk if it is still going on to this day. but yea she might get abit affected by the toxin in the gromp which makes her abit whoozy or slightly ill (cause she either eats or licks it)

The licking gromp one might be referencing the mushroom spores on his back :)

I mean, for a child that spent most her life secluded or imprisoned, it makes sense that she wouldn't know many other characters in the game such as, Aurelion Sol

Who is she supposed to talk too thou she was stuck in a prison for years, and the current briar we have is the one that JUST escaped from it she hasnt met anyone yet.

Pantheon voicelines: tells his long rivalry with aatrox Asol voicelines: Put that shit in my Tab. The names P A N T H E O N

Making fewer voice lines to make them more special sounds like artificial scarcity.

I love her emotional flip flop

In my thoughts, it's like Black Rose recruted Briar using Talon, the BR have a lot of failed missions, they need to do something right and Briar escaping swain's prision is the perfect oportunity for that

I really like Briar after all but I agree that her voice lines sucks in explaining who she is or what she does, someone that does this perfectly in recent time is Nilah, you learn about her, the demon of joy and her interactions explain where she is or what her goal is (interacting with graves/tf or demons)

Still trying to find out tho lore behind "AROOO AROOO AROOOOOOOO" whenever she fights wolves

Tencent couldn't pay enough pennies to get more voice lines, I loathe Tencent owning Riot Games

I can always count on Necrit to give me something to listen to on my way to work

Rammus voicelines: "OK"

Necrit... she literally aims for the "90s kids"... one of her animations is "running in a circle while laying on the ground". That's an old Homer Simpson move.

You say it's not for Lore.. but her eating animals, could be a ethics reference.

I think the fact that she doesn't have much interaction is because she was in prison for a very long time. And she was insane for most of her time before her imprisonment so she might not really have an opinion about people like Swain, even if he was the reason behind her imprisonment. It does highlight her past and isolation.

riot rlly said "we're cutting back more on lore guys good luck lmao"

i miss the secret buffs and interactions the 1% damage reduction vs leona if you had the commando skin on, khazix vs rengar passive fights, 1 ninja on a team buff, ect