Same, fuck brand

Hahaha facts

I feel you. I hate any carry Supports as an Aphelios otp . And Brand ist with Senna the Number 1

@@simlox3480 I play Brand to make your enchanter support miserable, killing the enemy ADC is just a neat bonus.

@SpookSkellington well i Like Tanks more and i hate Brand because they dont have value in lanr for me. I Just wanna scale and every Brand in my Team Takes the Wave with w e after lyandris Like i hate them

Yeah same. I was very confused why he would say no one plays him because I see him all the time. Then I remembered I only play ARAM.

Imagine a champion that relies on enemies stacking toghether, on a map that forces enemies to stack toghether... xdd

As someone who plays a lot of ARAM, and mains champions like Udyr, Voli etc, Brand finishing Rylai's is the reason Rylai's needs to be removed from the game.

⁠@@hrodvithitMy friends only wanna plays some rams, and im a. bruiser main, so ashe w spam builds or rylais “abusers” are the bane of my existance lmao Why does Brand E reaches that far 😂😂

​@PainGumbo this is why ARAM games suck. You get lethality Caitlin/Jinx players and ap ashe/kaisa players that sit a mile away under turret and just spam one ability. I feel like these champs should take like 20% increased damage to make it fair.

An interesting change to make his zone control better is to have the explosion stay where it was triggered and not follow the enemy around. Giving the player a better option at choosing where it goes off and taking the enemies ability to move it.

@hamdepaf6686 I also thought about that, but I am actually not sure if that would help him or harm him. The problem with that would be that, while his zone control would be less dependant on the enemies movement, it would only be so once you get it off. Keep in mind that his passive is not the only thing that is victim to the dependance on enemies grouping up, his E and R also fall into that category. They can only be used if an enemy is there to begin with and are weak if only one enemy is there to be hit. Ult can even be completely nullyfied by the enemies movement. So this change would ultimately not accomblish much, as you'd still need to get a combo off first to have any kind of zone control and the spells would still have the same issue. The only thing that would change is that mobile champs would have an easier time to get out of it, of they are the center of the explosion. Pretty much every other mage has zoning tools that just work by themselves. Orianna ball, Viktor W and R, Ziggs E and W, Zyras plants, I could go on. Brand is entirely dependant on enemies clumping together to get anything out of his spells, as E and R deal very low amounts of damage if they only hit one target, and his passive explosion only really pops off if it can chain multiple explosions. And all that on an immobile mage, with medium to low range whose only defensive ability is a skillshot based stun that needs set up and can be body blocked. That's also something to keep in mind, his whole combo hinges on either hitting W and then following up with Q to make it safe to walk up for E/R; or he has to take the risk to walk up and E/R preferably a group of enemies for massive spread damage. He doesn't have a good opener for his combo. So the only way I see how to mend all this is to rework either his E or his R to be something that isn't tied to the enemies movement (so, a target AoE or a skillshot) and also something that can actually open his combo. For Example: New ultimate: Pyroclasm Brand hurls a fireball onto a targeted area (AoE spell, projectile just for flavor, can't be windwalled or anything so a little like a Ziggs ult) that damages all enemies struck and leaves the ground burning for a few seconds, slowing enemies inside. Both the initial blast as well as the burning ground apply a stack of blaze, but an enemy can not gain more than one from this ability. The burning ground will refresh the duration of blaze stacks, tho. An ultimate like that would still work for clustered up enemies, but is way more flexible in its usage, provides zoning that is completely independant from the enemies movement and also can work as an opener for his combo due to the slow (and obviously higher range as its no longer a point and click spell). As much as I love Brands current ult.. as an ability it just doesn't hold up in modern league of legends. It will always be good in low elo and bad in high elo simply because of how it works. It can not be significantly buffed because it's point and click and auto targeted... and only has any value if it has targets to bounce off of. That works in ARAM, maybe even on lane and against enemies who don't know how to position or don't know how to counter it (move apart, use an ability to block it or get untargetable). But against anyone with a brain it just isn't a good ability in the modern, fast paced and dynamic League of Legends.

@@xDarkestDemonx I do think it would help him in the sense of his kit, because not everything is nullified by going further apart now. like for someone who is targeted by your ult to also leave the blast zone might mean they have to dodge much further into your team than they would need previously. Naturally his power budget still needs to be rebalanced, especially with people now being able to get out of his main damage tool. I agree that his Ult is probably the biggest flop in his kit, while the other abilities aren't stellar by any means, his ult is too easily negated by movement.

I think degrouping enemy comps is a thing, that you can use in a skill full way as well, protecting each other becomes a lot harder, if your brand land a spell and instant presses e, proccing a rylais Slow on every one. The way I see brand is as an amazing counter card, to protect and tankier teamcomps, but he also works really well into low-mid range, because you usually have to be close to the target with multiple melee champs, which is where brand shines.

I respect how in depth this comment is.

His passive procing two stacks of support quest makes him fun and easy to abuse as support in low elo ngl 😆

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If you're not horrible, you can easily make it to GM with Brand. Free wins.

While brand does not have strong direct peel, with the assistance of a decent jungler he can very easily convert your dead adc into a dead enemy adc support and jungle, with the right situations. He has some of the strongest late game team fighting in low elo.

As a support main this is why Senna,Xerath, and brand are my favorites. In low elo adcs are already having anime battles with the canon minion and don't always pay attention to your goated Renata Q outplay to follow up.

As an enchanter support main I find it relatively easy to give annoying amounts of poke with any of them (new yuumi aside), the pain I feel playing brand is the mobility creep of the game, unless you manage to land that stun on an assassin and go off they are either one shotting you or going over a wall, probably both. He both cannot keep up and has no inherent survival tools.

you make a good point there; he could gain stacking movespeed the more enemies are set ablaze. something like 1-2% move speed per champion and .5% per minion/jungle monster

I really like these ideas for the movement speed. I think that would really help brand. Also I would give his E just a little bit more range because it's way too short. To pull off your full max damage combo you have to be way to close. Also increasing brands R bounce range and speed would help greatly. I don't think that's too much to ask and it wouldn't make him OP. It would bring him up to par imo.

Literally the only thing that's hard about Briar is learning when to press W and when not to press W. (A problem that slowly becomes less important as the game goes on) I actually have no idea what's so hard about it.

My favorite part about Briar is how she says "I'm not just a living weapon"

I'm just waiting for her winrate to drop again because she is SO easy to deal with. I get actually annoyed when my team bans briar because it's such a waste of a ban. People learned how to play her but per usual people refuse to learn how to play vs her. Hopefully soon people will stop wasting their bans!!

@@TheCosmicAstro- I think it's a bit of a weird time to release a healing focused champ when wounds is so cheap and accessible. Given that she literally has a tunnel vision ability, it's a bit of a weird time to release her with tenacity being so shit.

@hrodvithit cheap accessible and STRONG. 40% is crazy plus you get the full effect with 800 gold as opposed to before where it was on partially effective till full item. The fact that some people think GW is weak right now is nuts

While I feel you are correct about the damage of those 2 items. The big problem brand has, and why people build rylais is because of his slow cast times. Rylais allows you to be way more reliable with hitting abilities. Your damage does not matter at all if you can't hit your enemy.

I see him in Emerald pretty often in jungle nowadays

@@Jkhb100 a lot has changed since this video was released 😂

Indeed, however as players get better and coordination improves he has more and more difficulty *applying* that damage.

Problem is his item build . burn + slow + ignore mdef = no cd . miss Q = face palm build more cd to do combo = half ass mage . no burst for low hp type nor burn health of tankie . use Q stun for other hit target ? alot champ do much better .

This also would mean that brand will either be insanelu weak in 1v1 or insanely stong in tf. I am assuming that blaze only works on champion

@@beigaming8403 I don't think it's a bad thing if he's weak in 1v1, a lot of the area control mages are not really that great in lane and will only really get kills if the enemy makes a mistake. Maybe make it so he can get more stacks per target after a per-champ CD (like J4 passive), so if Brand can land consistent poke he will eventually stack over the cap on a single target and get strong 1v1 (while also giving the enemy the option to not fight during this time and wait for the stacks to fall off or force Brand to play forward to keep the enemy away from the wave - and putting himself at risk). Lots of play/counterplay

@@voidgods Too weak, he will be a worser version of veigar, lower range and worser waveclear. Monster in if and just dead against assasin

@@beigaming8403 yes sure, the specifics don't really matter as much as changing his identity - from an ability spammer with no skill expression that just happens to have fire as a theme to an actual "raging fire" that either burns you down slowly (which Riot already distanced him from) or in this case, burns increasingly brighter/stronger as the teamfight (or the game - but late game scaling Champs are too many already) goes on. Riot likes themes and having champions adhere to core themes nowadays so I believe a change like that makes more sense than just changing skill numbers around or doing minor reworks that at the end amount to the same dilemma keeping him in this limbo

I would not call it shit, i would call it old. It was fine when champs are slow and lumbering. But now almost every new champ for the last few years comes with one or more dashes to get on him and take him out or just dodge his abilities.

@@miafiolekova5817I mean his E and R literally disappear if the enemy champion goes invisible/out of vision while casting them. Most champs have a refund mechanic, but Brand just gets fked

The R cast, not bounce ^

When mana pots existed AD annie was a superior adc with range, attack speed, and built in stun. Then they thought hey Annie and TF are way too stronk at ADC so one of the steps they took was take away annies insane auto attack range. The community complained about having her auto range nearly halved so they reverted the range change and now we have the annie of today that has GARBAGE attack speed scaling because they don't want to see ADC annie. Yet ADC tf is still now viable. Slightly unrelated note, they took away AP Master Yi because it was 'unfair and largely untargetable and not the intended way to play a hyper carry without a window to counter'. Then they completely make the AP Yi nerf pointless by adding Duskblade, a NEW way to be completely be untargetable. TL;DR: Give is AP yi back since the reasoning behind nerfing it has been completely ignored. League History from a beta player.

You did it wrong then. He scales very well because his AP ratio is good and a lot of his damage is % based.

@@coffeebot7016sorta, Brand in Aram depends a lot on what the enemy composition is. Against certain long range comps you're completely useless, as well as against too mobile comps. Basically like most midrange mages in aram. If you're against a bunch of melee/tanks though... oh boi BAKOOM

​@@coffeebot7016there's a point in a lot of aram games though where the enemy team will blow you up before you can cast more than 2 abilities. He's still good, but he definitely doesn't feel as strong late when everyone has a FON and can't be killed by one rotation.

@@coffeebot7016 if I recalled correctly, their team only have 1 tank, that is Cho'Gath but my team can hardly kill him. I did rush magic pen items and Liandry is my core item but welp, we lost....

@@AkiraSakko yeah Cho'gath and Mundo as well are Juggernauts that eventually outscale your damage output because of the sheer hp they get from Heartsteel. Like they'll get 1.5k bonus hp *just* from Heartsteel almost every game.

Rework tbh hes newer than ryze but feels 10 years older you literally have nothing against the 200 years champs because ur slow af and have to hit two pretty slow abilities that are core to ur main combo while walking like ur blitzcrank after he goes zoom to even hope u get out alive

Xerath is simple. All his abilities are skill shots so he’s harder to play simply because you need to be more accurate. It really doesn’t help that his e stun duration decreases depending on how short it travels so if you’re playing mid and a jg Kha jumps at you and you land your stun it’s only gonna last like .5 of a second.

The only difference is that Swain prefers long combat fights with ult