Ryze vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Ryze
based on 1,947 Ryze vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Brand
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Ryze in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several significant Ryze against Brand matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Ryze often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Brand
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Who is Better, Ryze or Brand?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Ryze does have a much lower winrate than Brand, when on opposite teams, Ryze also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Ryze into Brandas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ryze also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ryze is a trash counter to Brand. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ryze against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze to counter Brand 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze most often picks up more CS compared to Brand. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ryze versus Brand build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Ryze incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ryze boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing against Brand with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Brand as Ryze, Ryze players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Ryze vs Brand face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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