Reasons Why Brand Is OP this patch?

livefreordiebard·12/18/2015, 12:49:03 AM·3 votes·749 views

I just played up against a brand. As soon as brand got two items. Liandry's and rylais, He became a monster mid laner with unfortunately huge power spike against tanks and the ability to perma-slow everybody in team fights. I don't see the need for rylai's to proc off of Brand's blaze passive. I could see this being a significant change balance Brand. Anyone have any other suggestions? (for the record we ended up wining that game. It is just frustrating when you play a tank and stack MR and still get perma slowed/ stunned by a 5/8 Brand. Brand alone stalled the game out for 10 min with his perma-slow alone.)

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Miku Lv9912/18/2015, 1:24:13 AM2 votes

Well it's not just that, but also that Deathfire Touch also procs off of each second of his passive, meaning that even landing any one of his abilities even when he's at level 1 can do massive damage in total, especially if he also gets 3 procs of his spelltheif's from it. And he even gains 24 extra gold just from that, too.

Theorchero12/18/2015, 12:52:14 AM1 votes

Rylais has to proc off dots.

Removing that interaction for Brand only makes zero sense, although I do agree a 40% slow for the entire debuff duration is insane. It just needs to only count the first tick of Blaze, similar to how other dot synergies should be nerfed. If they had thought about it, DFT should have had an internal cooldown or only procd on first instance of spell damage so people like Brand would stop abusing it.