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What the fuck is a Brand??

NeekoNeekoNIEE·10/18/2019, 9:28:55 PM·6 votes·5,569 views

Can someone give me a rational explanation as to why brand gets to be so oppressive at all stages of the game for so seemingly free? He literally can sit in front of the wave and do my entire health bar plus a second and a half of hard cc before I can even attack the minions. What is okay about a champion that enables that kind of play? Or, rather, that disables that kind of gameplay (i.e. "League of Legends as an ADC"), and who the fuck okayed that at Riot? He has inherent burn damage that procs dark harvest (which Singed DoT doesn't do and Teemo DoT doesn't do), has a larger or comparable effective range than most other bot lane and support picks, and is a mage. What in the fuck is okay about that in any champion design? Someone please explain.

EDIT: I have been informed that my comments about Teemo and Singed poisons procing Dark Harvest is incorrect. My statement was based on information gleaned from trying out Dark Harvest Singed several patches ago. Thanks to @Autrah Fang for correcting me about this, and for testing it out him/herself.

73 Comments

Brutalitops0110/18/2019, 9:53:32 PM4 votes

What's ok about that is the fact that it's 100% skillshots. Meaning that, if you're not bad, you can dodge it and then ignore him for around 12 seconds until his cooldowns come back up. I will admit his damage is a bit too high in my opinion, but you can play around it. It's kinda like Blitzcrank, Thresh, Nautilus, or Pyke. All 4 of them have really powerful hooks and repositioning tools that, if you get hit by, you're probably dead. It's just a matter of not getting hit.

Viocie10/18/2019, 10:49:32 PM3 votes

yes his dmg is pretty high when u get hit by his CC and all the skills. But his stun (ignite then Q) only stuns the first enemy, which can be easily dodged/countered if u stay behind the minion. Even his Q range is pretty long, he still need to be kinda forward to do the CC ( he is mid-range). You can trade back with him when he tries to poke you, dodge his skill and all he can do is getting hit by you. As an support, he cant build RoA which he is very squish.

With 49.65% win rate ( according to u.gg) I think he is at a healthy position, not super op/bad. In your post I don't see u mentioned about support at all, my guess is that your support wasn't so helpful. The best timing to trade with him is the time he wants to poke you. Hard CC champs are effective against him. Mage support = nothing when u can get his hp low most of the time.

Against brand, protective support : nami (hard CC, easy trade with her w, healing) and those hook champs

Wish you best luck against him next time<3

I Spread Cancer10/19/2019, 6:29:08 AM2 votes

That's called counterpick. Brand beat most adc at every stage of the game but lose to a lot of support. If you want to fuck Brand by your own, pick Yasuo.

CurS1VE10/18/2019, 11:03:37 PM1 votes

So the thing with Brand is he is super Volatile; he is literally the most feast or famine Mage in the Game regardless of lane.

Ya some games he will pop off and be such a beast and other games he will INT all day! like literally most Brands have more of those Famine Games and less of the Feasts.

It sucks when he does happen to hit that WQE (in whatever order) it does suck for sure in lane early cause at lv3 that basically forces you to back or to die (personally i just back) when he hits all. OFC when he sucks, he really really sucks, there's a reason why ppl don't play him as much and it's because there are more stable and just as capable Mages.

Sorry you happen to run into the Brand that happen to pop off, just know it won't happen all the time, honestly it'll generally be the opposite