Kayle vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Kayle
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Kayle vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Brand
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Kayle vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Kayle versus Brand matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Brand..
Kayle normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Brand. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Brand
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Who is Better, Kayle or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Brand, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes an ok counter to Brand.
While Kayle does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Brandas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kayle is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle often picks up much more CS compared to Brand. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Kayle versus Brand build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Brand than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Brand with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Brand as Kayle, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Kayle vs Brand matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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