Brand vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Brand
based on 9,794 Brand vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Xerath
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 Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Brand vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some valuable Brand versus Xerath matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xerath..
Brand usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Xerath. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Xerath
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Who is Better, Brand or Xerath?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually loses when taking on Xerath, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a poor counter to Xerath.
While Brand does have a lower win rate compared to Xerath, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Brand into Xerath.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Brand is a bad counter to Xerath. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand to counter Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often picks up less CS relative to Xerath. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Brand versus Xerath build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Brand used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Xerath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when playing against Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Xerath 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Brand vs Xerath clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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