Brand vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Brand
based on 5,512 Brand vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Brand vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Brand against Soraka counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Brand often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Soraka. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Soraka
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Who is Better, Brand or Soraka?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when trying to fight Soraka, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter to Soraka.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Soraka, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Soraka.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Soraka matchups, Brand is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is a decent counter for Soraka. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Soraka.
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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 Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand often gets more CS relative to Soraka. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Brand versus Soraka build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Soraka than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Soraka with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Soraka as Brand, you should equip 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 rune sets players chose for Brand vs Soraka matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
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