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.
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Brand vs. Tristana counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tristana..
Brand normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Tristana, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a great counter for Tristana.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Tristana, when facing one another, Brand also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Tristana.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Tristana matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Brand is a great counter for Tristana. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Tristana.
If you would like to truly master Brand in order to counter Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically racks up less CS compared to Tristana. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Brand versus Tristana build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Tristana than with most other common builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 53.6% battling Tristana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Tristana 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 we have analyed for Brand vs Tristana matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.6% win rate overall.
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