Brands damage (or lack thereof)

I love playing Brand. The feel of the character just speaks to me and has me coming back to play him over and over.

But he kinda sucks.

Against an enemy caster, if I land all three main spells, ill maybe get them to 2/5 health at best, practically in all stages of the game. His combo just seems super weak. If the enemy has any sort of MR or health items, its even worse, being downright laughable against tanks. This wouldnt so much be a problem if it wasnt for seeing all the other mage champs nuking people down in those situations. And those champs usually bring more to the table than zero mobility and a conditional stun.

LIke ill be against an Ahri, we both havnt backed yet and are level 4. She goes to trade and I dodge her charm and the return portion of her orb, whilst hitting her with everything and a few auto while shes stunned. And guess what, we still break about even in the trade.

I dunno, just seems like Brand has very little going for him for a champ who lacks in everything, supposedly to compensate for his "great damage".