Brand vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Brand
based on 10,038 Brand vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Graves
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.
Advice to Win Against Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Brand vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Brand in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Brand vs. Graves matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Brand typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Graves. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Graves
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Who is Better, Brand or Graves?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when facing off against Graves, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Brand makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Graves, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Graves.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Graves matchups, Brand is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Brand is a decent counter for Graves. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Graves. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Brand versus Graves build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Brand included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Graves than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Graves with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Graves as Brand, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Brand vs Graves battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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