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A Deep Thought About Support Brand...

The Capn Cook·10/31/2015, 3:53:10 AM·1 votes·618 views

If you aren't plat+ and main brand, don't play him support. I can't tell you how many games I lose because people who main mid, or top, or any other role are like wow, I just queued up for ranked. Oh look, I'm also last pick, support brand time!

This is so annoying, now I'm not the best at this game and I know where he is good, I know where he's useless, but no one seems to understand that if you don't know how to play a champion or a role, to not play that champion or role. Literally I see support brands left and right losing me games, in ranked, because they've never played him before. There's a very high risk with depending on the picks high-low rewards.

    Now for an example, there was a game awhile back that was ranked, they first picked Tahm support, and Vayne ADC, blind. So, this guy said "_Hi all, I main mid, but I can play support!_" seeing this I was like oh great a guy who actually plays support. Here's the twist, he picked brand support and I picked Caitlyn knowing they have no sustain and I outrange their ADC, coming into this with the intent to freeze lane, and poke them if they tried to farm. Support brand had other ways of thinking, now he decided to constantly play behind me, apply no in-lane pressure, and have no real presence throughout the game, besides free gold for the other team. This is because, he didn't know how to support and he didn't understand how to play brand support. Now, I made some mistakes throughout the game, I wasn't perfect either throughout this game. I was able to stay on tower, just try to farm up, and poke their Vayne when she overextended, but we still ended up losing. My theory for why we lost is because, although Brand is a great way to break the meta, he isn't a viable pick to those who don't know how to play him. Just a little bit of thought for this topic is, try some games mid lane with Brand, learn how to play him, and learn the bot meta after you have earned some mechanical skill with him. Then once you understand how to play him bot lane into certain picks, then play him as you will.

   The main things I want to be a goal for this little "essay" are, learn some mechanical skills with your champion of choice, (in this case Brand) learn the meta to the lane you wish to play. Then, once you have mastered those two just a little bit, then bring that person into ranked play.

This is for all you wanting to try a new role, but don't exactly know what role, or champion to play. (It's also a rant, so if you don't want to hear about it then go find a different topic to talk about)

4 Comments

Deep Terror Nami10/31/2015, 3:59:43 AM1 votes

You could literally replace "Brand" with any other champion and "Support" with any other role. If you don't know how to do either, you're probably not going to do well.

Archon X10/31/2015, 4:00:51 AM1 votes

I'm a plat 1 support main and I have tried Brand several times in bot lane. He does disgusting damage early due to his passive and scales well if you go with an mpen/rylais/liandrys build. I normally oppose dps mage supports because they can't keep up mid and late due to less gold as a result of not having any farm, but I think he can stay relevant if played correctly. A definite issue is his lack of reliable cc, basically if you can combo the q off of something else that's a long ass stun, just hard to keep the burn going without a lot of sustain items, and a morello early really gimps him in damage (when played support, not mid)

Salidfingers10/31/2015, 4:02:03 AM1 votes

You cant freeze lane with a support like brand if you want to harass them. Its like me on zyra support, i get complaints all the time from people telling me all i do is spam abilities. It may look like that, but i am causing a lot of zone control and in doing so bot lane end up pushing.

So he was thinking about your farm as he never played AP/Support while you are judging him or you will judge him for taking your CS. Thats the problem as AP support

Against Tahm Kench brand is a good pick.

Kal Vas Flam10/31/2015, 4:05:34 AM1 votes

Supp Brand is legit but certainly don't want to take him there unless you know what you're doing.