Let's make Brand 3x tankier, give him free spellvamp, MS buff and make his spells impossible to miss
Let's call him Ryze.
Let's call him Ryze.
But will he Ryze to the occasion? 
You win the World Pun Championship's semi-finals. Now you must go into the Championship match vs. Phreak. Are you ready?
I don't know, he's pretty good. Phreakishly good.
LOL
QQ harder, OP, I'm not swimming in a sea of your tears yet.
Champ RP IP Pick % Winrate Banrate Position Release
Brand 880 4800 3.73% 52.03% 0.09% Middle Lane 4/12/2011
Ryze 260 450 17.8% 50.5% 14.36% Middle Lane 2/21/2009
And Ryze has Brand's popularity x3 .doesn't matter if Brand has 2% more win rate.
Let's also cut 75% of his burst, remove 1/3 of his range, take away his %HP damage, stick all of his AoE into his R for a much shorter duration and kill his AP ratios in exchange for some mana ratios so he can build defense
Because anyone who isn't a fucking retard knows that Ryze has no natural defense.