Am I wrong or does Brand need a buff, Riot please reply!

Deathfire··1 votes·493 views

I'm a 1.5 million mastery Brand Main, they've been playing with brand for months on the PBE but never go through with any of the changes they play with... only ones that made it through were Mana related when you last hit mobs with your passive applied which in no way is relevant to Brand in support role, and even in mid it feels negligible, He needs some love somewhere like some more AP scaling, a new magic pene item, give him some more passive dmg, or make his stun 2 seconds again really a few of those changes combined would help. I think it's pretty ridiculous that he's one of the only champs in the game that relied heavily on rylais/liandrys (nerfed) and DFT (removed) and they didnt give him any quality of life buffs? his win rate has dropped dramatically in the past 6 months ( cause of heal/shield support meta totally countering him, and pretty much every champ in the game can get an advantage on brand that he has no tools to deal with, anyone can just buy the cheapest amount of MR/HP to survive a full spell rotation and win a trade/all in, tenacity from MR boots makes his stun .75 seconds and rylais slow is barely abusable which is a joke against divers/tanks who can just 1 shot brand) and removing DFT was just the last nail in the coffin have totally made this champion unfun to play, pro's dont even play him so what's wrong with giving him a little love? he has plenty of counterplay (just build MR or dodge/flash dash his stun or W and don't stand next to minions or group up when his ult is up). Brand is supposed to be a combo mage teamfight monster but proccing his passive feels too risky and unrewarding his laning phase is mediocre at best his wave clear is bad his roams are bad his poke has been terrible since his passive rework and rylais liandry nerf just saying a mid range immobile mage should have some legitimate payoffs for all those shortcomings. Lol sorry for the rant but its getting to the point that I just want to stop playing the game, really disappointed in riot for not going through with the 100% buff to his passive dot on 6.24b was really looking forward to seeing if it helped I personally didnt think it sounded like enough but it was a good start.

8 Comments

SSmotzer2 votes

Brand needs a new kit.

PhearBunny1 votes

Brand is hard to balance, when hes strong hes too strong. When he's weak no one plays him.

Deathfire1 votes

They could rework him and give him an actual skill curve, Pro's don't ever play him, even when he was strong so it shouldn't be a balance issue imo. Hope they figure out something soon.

iLBGAMing1 votes

He's already getting a buff on PBE.

Blaze (Passive) damage increased from [2% of max health] to [4% of max health]

scribbles7821 votes

I may be wrong, but Brand seems pretty strong with all the buffs he's getting.

I see Brand as a mainly teamfight-oriented mage, so it makes sense that he's not great in lane. He has a ton of AOE in his kit and a pretty easy to land poke tool (his pillar).

Brand is one of the most oppressive mages (for me) to play against in lane, maybe behind Malzahar and Orianna. But I think that despite this, he preforms the best/most reliably in teamfights. Orianna could be better but you have to land a good ult which can be difficult.

IMO, Brand is just fine as he is, if not a bit too strong. (But this is coming from a Silver 4 to a Diamond 3, soooo...)

PS: I didn't read a lot of your post because the wall of text is scary... Space some things out for clarity :3 (for future reference)

Deathfire1 votes

lol well i'm not sure what buffs you're talking about but the point I was making is that he's not fulfilling his identity (an AOE burst champ) he has too many weaknesses and not enough strength, Brand's win rate has dropped 5% over last 6 months or so and it's only going to get lower as the meta settles. No offense but brand just seems OP to you because you're in silver and people below Plat don't generally know how to build/play against brand so it may seem to you that he's fine where he's at when he really isn't, stats don't lie and his say he needs a buff that's why they're playing with him on PBE but they just can't seem to find something they like so they aren't going through with any of the changes.

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