You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
He gains speed while chasing in a straight line, but taking damage makes him lose that momentum.
Try to get inside his orbit, since his stars can't hurt you up close.
His stars disappear while stunned or silenced, giving you an easy opportunity to fight him.
His Starsurge ability can grow to cover a huge area - don't stay in the same place too long!
The stats shown here clarify several critical Brand against Aurelion Sol matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aurelion Sol’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aurelion Sol..
Brand normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Aurelion Sol. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Aurelion Sol, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes an ok counter for Aurelion Sol.
While Brand does have a lower winrate than Aurelion Sol, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Aurelion Sol.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aurelion Sol. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Aurelion Sol matchups, Aurelion Sol is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Brand is a somewhat poor counter to Aurelion Sol. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Aurelion Sol.
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Aurelion Sol during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average accumulates less CS as Aurelion Sol. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Brand versus Aurelion Sol build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Aurelion Sol than with most other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 49.9% battling Aurelion Sol with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Aurelion Sol as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Brand vs Aurelion Sol counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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