Ideas for buffing Brand

First of all let me start off by saying I main Brand. I have played him extensively for over three years now. He was one of the champions I played exclusively last season to help me get to Diamond. I don't think he is as bad as some people think, however I will readily admit that he can use a little help to make him competitively viable. Of note, I am not advocating for all of these changes to happen, they are just suggestions for ways to buffing Brand without making him overpowered or oppressive. Taking even one or two of these changes to heart would go a long way towards making Brand a competitive pick,

Mana Cost Reductions This is the easiest way to buffing Brand. He was mana hungry before the mana regeneration nerfs and he is even worse now. Just some simple mana cost changes would help brand in lane. He needs to use both his w and e if he wants to farm a lane and doing so means he can't harrass (unless the enemy is completely idiotic and standing next to the minions). When compared to a champion like ahri who can farm with just her q or a zed who has no mana costs, Brands skill costs seem exorbitant.

**Passive Mobility ** Brand gains a movement speed increase when an enemy is on fire. Gives Brand some much needed mobility, works with his kit's focus on enhancing his skills through combo's and applying his passive.

**Q **

-Sear applies a slow to enemies hit who are not on fire (his passive). Still stuns target that's on fire. Gives brand a form of cc that doesn't require him to combo cast.

-Allow Q to hit multiple people (IE it is no longer stopped by the first target). Keep the stun to only applying to the first target hit. Gives brand some extra harassment capabilities in lane while also strengthening his niche as an aoe burst mage.

W Slightly increase the missile speed of the W. Pretty much every champion has a form of mobility now a days to dodge the w. Gives them a lower window of opportunity to dodge his main damaging spell.

E Give back the range of his e he had when released. If no one remembers, Brand or Orianna had the range of their spells reduced because they could zone to well. League has changed a lot since than, a lot of champions have greater poke and zoning potential, and when an assassin like Zed can poke/zone better than brand with no mana costs and greater all in potential, I get kinda pissy.

R Zonya's no longer pops the ult. The ult will just bounce off the target (They wont take damage) and than maintain course towards the next target. Cant tell you how annoying it is to see my ult bounce off an enemy and than fizzle because it randomly chooses the next target who happens to be going into stasis. His ult has enough counterplay as is, zhonya's screwing him over seems like overkill.

If any of these changes seem good to you feel free to comment. Hell if you don't like these ideas and think I'm an idiot than comment as well. Keep this thread active so Riot will take notice. Give the immobile champions a mascot to rally around.

Also Riot I am telling you this. You have never seen an LCS bigplay# until you have seen a perfect brand ult just eviscerate an enemy team.