Mage update = GG brand
Looks like neither brand mid, or brand support will be good after this update. I really loved playing brand to.
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Have you seen his new passive? How is he going to be worse?
have you seen the new brand?
Have you seen what they did to Annie? That's brutal.
Explain why?
Even if Brand is bad after the update, I'll still play him because I enjoy playing him.
Besides, just because some text says that Brand will be weaker than usual in 1v1, that doesn't mean he can't fight anyone at all. It just means you need to do a bit of poking first. His W mana cost was lowered, so it will make it easier to do this too.
His passive looks great, especially with the burst damage it brings. It has the old passive, although weaker if you can't stack it, plus some new juicy damage which can spread.
Although I'm disappointed that there weren't all that many changes, I love the passive changes.
My Brand
Nerfed badly
I am a sad zombie
I miss Brand 2 sec stun, i hope get a buff on his combo stun scale with Q level 1.5 sec lvl 1 to 2 stun sec at lvl 5
I'm willing to bet that 100% of the "brand is fine/good/THATPASSIVE" is from players who don't play Brand. Brand today compared to Brand this time last week id DRAMATICALY worse off. The more games Ive played the more inescapably obvious it is.
Brand, in lane, is slow and immobile. He survives this because he could harass rather well (nerfed hard), bully in lane brawls (nerfed), and Q-stun in emergencies (nerfed).
Brand does waaaaay less damage in lane unless he hits a 3-combo, and anyone with a brain can use minions to block the Q unless you want to fight him. Mana regen changes + requiring 3-spells to do damage makes puts him in a build path conundrum. Build early AP to get lane bully chance, run oom. Build sustain/mana and do no damage in lane. His lane power is gone. I mean gone, gone. Snowballing with new Brand is outright impossible.
His scaling is way down now. His ability to win ad-melee matchups in lane (zed, yas, talon) was dependant on being able to do meaningful early harass (nerfed) and E-poke (nerfed). He used to be able to W-E minion farm when in a jam, but that's been nerfed realy hard.
Anyone who thinks all this is worth that gimmicky exploding passive a chunk of health is either a staight idiot or doesn't understand Brand at all.
thank god. nothing more annoying than a brand support building full AP.