Rek'Sai vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Rek'Sai
based on 1,125 Rek'Sai vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Brand
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Rek'Sai vs. Brand matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between these two champions. As an example, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand..
Rek'Sai often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Brand. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Brand
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Brand?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when playing against Brand, with a 45.5% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Rek'Sai does have a much lower win rate compared to Brand, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Rek'Sai into Brand.
Furthermore, Rek'Sai also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rek'Sai is a garbage counter to Brand. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rek'Sai against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai to counter Brand during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai on average picks up less CS compared to Brand. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Rek'Sai versus Brand build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Rek'Sai included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average win rate of 45.5% when countering Brand with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Brand as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Rek'Sai vs Brand face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
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