Brand vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Brand
based on 8,523 Brand vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Brand vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here feature several influential Brand vs. Leona counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Brand normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Leona
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Who is Better, Brand or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when taking on Leona, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Brand makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Brand does have a lower winrate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Leona.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Brand is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand often picks up more CS compared to Leona. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Brand versus Leona build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Leona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Leona as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Brand vs Leona counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Leona as Brand are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.