Riot Anivia and Brand haven't been touched balance wise in a long time

Angelofchaos16x··2 votes·628 views

So lets keep it that way shall we ? Anivia last balance change was a mana cost buffs in January 2014 and Brand's last change was the 9 of July of 2013 (Also mana related). They did not become OP out of the blue, they always were very good picks, and now that you introduced deathfire touch, then yeah, of course the few DOT mages we have will take over the game. IF you do want to fix this, look into your Masteries, and not at the champions. Remember a few weeks back when Veigar was the OP champ of the month ? That was a case of overbuffs leading to a over annoying champion. This time, the champs received no buffs (Actually with the price increase, it was almost a indirect nerf, but whatever) and if you are to judge them OP, judge your Deathfire touch first.

Edit: I am aware of the base mana changes last patch, but I doubt that they would suddenly become OP because of that, since other champs that received the same buffs are them ,did not become OP, Ziggs is a example of this

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CppL1 votes

I just now realise that brand is sitting at 57% win ratio lol .did i missed something? :D

ProfDrDeath1 votes

Deathfire Touch works with his passive.

Also, he has been decent in yoloqueue for quite some time, due to his playstyle praying on mistakes both on an individual and a teamwide level.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

In 5.11 they buffed Brand's Ult so if it loses its initial target (ex. Zhonya's, death) it will look for something else nearby to hit instead of fizzling out.

In 5.18 they finally let Anivia crit Baron and Dragon with E (couldn't before because you can't CC them). Can't remember which patch, you can now pin targets to player-created terrain (ex. Condemn into Anivia wall).

Many champions got way more changes, but they still have had something.

TyRamos1 votes

You realize that support Brand does just as much damage as mid Brand, but without the need of csing. There's a reason he's at 57% winrate, he's WAY too strong right now

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