Moving Brand from Support to the Midlane.

Hello gameplay +! I'm a Brand support main that hovers between DIV-DII, and I absolutely love to play Brand! Many people are frustrated playing against him though and for good reason. The most common argument is that people would rather see a champion designed for mid lane with mid lane-like damage to remain in that role, and I personally wouldn't mind going Brand mid at all. However, it's simply not as satisfying, nor as good. Here are the reasons why I believe Brand currently doesn't sit well in mid as oppose to support ~

1. Has to be too close to harass, and it's very difficult to land all three spells twice in a row just to evenly trade a lane opponent who just has to dodge one of those six spells to win a trade. If I go mid and don't miss a single spell, then yeah I'll win the lane. But if I'm off just a little then I'll probably lose, whereas my opponent just has to land maybe one skillshot to get the same results.
2. Very gankable but not with the range that xerath, velk, and lux has to play safe.
3. You either use spells on minions to go even in lane dominance or you harass, whereas someone like TF just has to Q the wave, maybe throw a red card. Brands are always out cs'd mid (BRAND HAS THE SECOND LOWEST CS NUMBERS OF ALL MIDS, despite not being a roam/ assassin champion like LB who has the actual lowest) or Brand has to have the wave pushing towards them (unless W+E is used on the wave a ton, which causes mana problems and Brand is one of the most gankable mages so having those spells on cooldown is not viable).
4. Brand's best rune is DH because of how easy it is to proc on him. In mid you'll proc it half as much (or worse depending on match up) whereas in bot a Brand will get the most DH stacks of anyone in the game.
5. AP doesn't scale well on Brand, putting a lot of his power into his passive which doesn't need massive item spikes to do damage, and is amplified a ton with the easy to buy magic pen items and rylia's + liandry's. Going mid for extra farm to get those extra cs numbers (43/44 for all mid champions in terms of cs though) isn't worth the extra menial ap item.
6. The only reason Brand has a 50% WR mid is because of his amazing teamfight potential. He probably has the best damage potential of any champ for grouped team fights. That being said, his teamfight potential isn't greatly increased by going mid rather than support. In fact, it's probably better to have a mid for the enemy team to focus on so that a Brand can actually get his combos off in a teamfight, or if he's focused hard, then the mid won't be focused then can do the massive damage instead.

My proposed changes includes nerfs to his damage, buffs to his CS and better AP scaling:

1. Brand's passive does extra damage against minions to assist in CS.
2. His autoattack burns minions (only minions) for a small increased amount of damage as well.
3. His base damages are all decreased at every level but has much better AP scaling (making him weaker at every minute of the game until around 2 magic items, in which he becomes stronger than previously). <- this alone would lower support Brand's winrate by a considerable amount, but alone would trash all of Brand's early game making him the weakest around, so the other proposed changes are needed to assist in lane harass/ CS.
4. He has slightly longer range on E.
5. Similar to Ryze, it would be great to give Brand some mobility like an MS boost or shield on landing an ability, or even just a small base MS increase. Brand is the only champ that requires two spells to land a small stun to avoid ganks, but if either of those abilities are ever used to help with CS then you're screwed. So it's either always have wards up everywhere, try to go even in CS, or lose CS but be prepared for a gank. I would love to have a simple gold card to throw out or a long range single spell stun (Xerath) to help against ganks, but his mechanics are so much different than the average mid laner for survival.
6. Ignoring only #4 but keeping the only 3, perhaps reworking his kit interaction to make him more viable to play midlane would be an option. This is a more difficult change though and not just a small number push-around.

Well, that's all from me! Thanks for the reading my short thoughts on Brand :).