Was the Brand update supposed to nerf his lane bully?

Raithofhel·5/5/2016, 8:55:43 PM·1 votes·561 views

Brand main and haven't played a lot of his post-update and all...

When I read the numbers, I could immediately tell that they were shifting power out of Q-E-R and into his passive, along with the passive combust gimmick and all. And of course I knew that meant a nerf to levels 1-2, etc. But everything not involving a 3-spell combo feels pretty darn terrible now, and a lot of his lane bullying involved E-W or poking the Zed/Yas/etc. with just the E, and so on. This basically has all been nerfed really hard. Was this the idea? Give Brand a definitive role as AoE mage and by doing this completely take away his lane bully history?

2 Comments

Ezzary5/5/2016, 9:03:07 PM1 votes

I feel the new passive is complete garbage imo I think it's not as good as people think it is compared to the old passive and if you compared them both in a 20+ min game the old passive would deal more damage on charts. Also nerfing his q and e and ulti damage and his stun was pretty dumb so overall I think these were straight nerfs to him ^^

Raithofhel5/5/2016, 9:30:00 PM1 votes

well yes, in the end it felt like a nerf to his whole dmg output, and I defo found myself not liking the actual passive nearly as much as I hoped, but I've only played a little of it and won't call it garbage yet. It got comments from others who saw it and said "wow, I love that new passive" and of course didn't know that it cost me basically a giant load of damage to get and only shows in a 3-spell combo.... so yes, I think it feels like a giant nerf, but I'm questioning the whole design concept because they can always tweak the #'s.