Brand is a support now?

Brand has been a viable support pick for a long damn time.....

Brand has changes on the PBE that exclusively help him solo lane: Units killed by his eruption restore mana.

He's always been both a mid and a kill-lane support because of his pressure and early damage

Brand's kit works better against two people, especially his ult. Hence he has been seeing more play botlane than mid.

Brand has been a Support for the past 3 seasons.

80% of the time brand is played support. http://www.op.gg/champion/brand/statistics/support

Since the patch, the suggested items have reverted to the FIRST suggestions (support Brand) as default. To change this see below:

While in the game - change the suggested items by clicking on SUGGESTED word (top left) and drop down the other list to get back his original suggestion list.

Welllll.....Ive been out of the game for a bit and im getting back into I like brand mid. Always a strong pick for me.

High base damage and CC, he is supposed to work for kill lanes and also he puts a lot of damage on the table.

This happened a while ago, and expect more mages to come botlane, as malzahar did too for a short time.

I play him mid because I hate myself & want to die

He's been played as a support in solo queue for a long time now, and was also played at Worlds 2016 as a support champion by Albus Nox Luna's (now M19) support Likkrit as his pocket pick which was banned in almost every single game against him because of its strength and the inability of other teams to find a counter to it at the time.

With the update he received a while back making his passive stack and do an explosion for a large percentage of max HP, he saw a rise in popularity as a support pick as well as the fact that one spell landing guarantees your entire 3 stacks of procs from Spellthief's line is used immediately.