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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some strategic Brand against Lissandra counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lissandra..
Brand usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Lissandra, with a 52.5% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter to Lissandra.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Lissandra matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Brand is a good counter for Lissandra. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Lissandra.
To truly master Brand to counter Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average racks up less CS relative to Lissandra. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Brand versus Lissandra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Lissandra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 52.5% when countering Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Lissandra as Brand, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Brand vs Lissandra fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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