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.
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stats provided here emphasize several influential Brand against Taliyah matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Brand typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Taliyah, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a great counter for Taliyah.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Taliyah, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Taliyah.
Moreover, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Taliyah matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Brand is a great counter to Taliyah. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Taliyah.
If you would like to truly master Brand in order to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average gets less CS compared to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Brand versus Taliyah build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Taliyah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Taliyah as Brand, Brand players should take 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 players picked for Brand vs Taliyah counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
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