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Brand Changes

D0P3ST·9/12/2017, 4:23:43 PM·2 votes·944 views

Riot recently made a statement that they would like to change Brand, at least buff his solo laning. I don't play a lot of the champion, but I love discussing game changes with my friends and one happens to be a Brand player in Gold 5 that had some thought we mulled over last night.

Like many others, we were both very sad to see Brand's E unchanged primarily in his class update, and would like to focus on that as a avenue to both make the champ more interesting, as well as better overall as a wave clear spell. These are the 2 options we came up with:

Change: E or Conflagration =

  1. E now spreads to to all near by targets regardless if they are ablaze or not, dealing half the damage. If the Target is Ablaze, Conflagration now deals full damage to all nearby enemies, and will further spread to enemies near them for half damage unless they are Ablaze.

  2. E now deals an additional 2 - 6% max health damage if Ablaze instead of spreading. If the target dies to the E damage, it now spreads and deals the normal damage, as well as refunds half the cooldown and mana.

The reasoning behind the first change option would be to help brand with wave clear and further emphases his AOE speciality. The second one would be to enforce further strength in percent health damage and to reward him for using his E as a wave clear tool.

What do you guys think about brand, and maybe these possible change options specifically?

-Glogtrot

6 Comments

Bard R Friday9/12/2017, 5:03:34 PM1 votes

I like these changes, I already had the idea about auto spreading if you kill the target with it because of its similarities to Ryze E.

Errastas9/12/2017, 6:27:34 PM1 votes

I love Brand and his damage is ridiculous enough without adding more.

CrazyBigfoot289/12/2017, 8:26:03 PM1 votes

I love the second idea of your E but maybe add a passive to brand E where if target that is ablaze dies it will spread sort of like a wildfire

AccountaBilabudy9/12/2017, 8:30:47 PM1 votes

Honestly feel like Brand just needs a couple of seconds cooldown off of his W and also reduce the mana cost of his W. Then he would be just fine. His damage is certainly already there. Feel like he's mana hungry and has low wave clear for a ranged mage though.

Kídá9/12/2017, 8:50:31 PM1 votes

The problem i see with the first option is that your are able to spread your Blaze to easily and thus the risk of getting hit by an empowered W would increase and turn Brand into more of a lane bully. The second option to me seems like a nerf to Brand since in team fights he will have a harder time spreading blaze with his E so your R>E combo would only be good to use when there's an enemy champion who's almost dead otherwise your gonna have a hard time getting multiple blaze stacks. To me the mana refund and halved CDR are a good step though. His E could work like Annie here she gets refunded the mana and CDR when she kills a target with her Q. This would help Brand CS better. For better wave clear you could have the empowered E deal 50% more damage to minions there by increasing his wave clear without increasing his damage to champions.