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.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some important Nilah against Brand counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Nilah often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nilah usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Nilah does have a lower win rate than Brand, when facing one another, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nilah into Brandas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nilah has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nilah is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Brand.
To truly master Nilah to counter Brand 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 mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah usually racks up more CS as Brand. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nilah versus Brand build include Guardian Angel, Immortal Shieldbow, and The Collector. When Nilah combined at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better against Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when countering Brand with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Brand as Nilah, Nilah players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Nilah vs Brand counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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