PERMA BAN BRAND TOMMOROW
If you think he did alot of damage before, he now has the new and improved liandries. If you get hit by one combo, your dead. For the sake of your LP and mine, perma ban him .
If you think he did alot of damage before, he now has the new and improved liandries. If you get hit by one combo, your dead. For the sake of your LP and mine, perma ban him .
Balance will happen.
There's too many dot mages to ban mate. Just get mag resist if you can. Make
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your friend in bot lanes against them. That's what I do when i get stuck with adc.
Just went Grasp Jinx with that and completely shut down a Xerath's ability to bully me yesterday. Every time he tried to nuke me, I'd Grasp him for a heal, and what damage he did do got hit by my life regen from the Doran's. I just healed out of it all and won lane without a single gank from my jungler, who spent the entire game camping our top.
Doing so will slow his ability to get both Mana sustain and a Liandra's and a Rylai's. If you slow him down, he'll be worthless.
Brand gets more damage definitely. However, with the new AP items, he'll lose out on Mana/CDR. Morellonomicon is now part of his core, and he still will build Liandrys, Rylais, Void Staff, Sorcerer Shoes, and Rabadons. None of those items have Mana/CDR on them anymore. Technically he gets more damage, but it's a nerf to his Mana/CDR. This will be good if you want to outsustain him or play around him. I'm really happy with him actually having a clear weakness now rather than just getting Mana/CDR for free from Morellos like before. That was ridiculous.
The only option Brand has now is to build Ludens or GLP if he wants Mana/CDR, but both will hurt his power spikes, so I don't see him going any Mana/CDR thankfully.