Brand vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Brand
based on 4,462 Brand vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Brand vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some valuable Brand versus Illaoi counter stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Brand typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Brand or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Illaoi, with a 52.3% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a good counter to Illaoi.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Illaoi.
Moreover, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Illaoi matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is an above average counter to Illaoi. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Brand against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically racks up less CS as Illaoi. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Brand versus Illaoi build consist of Banshee's Veil, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Illaoi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 52.3% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Illaoi as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Brand vs Illaoi counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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