Soraka vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Soraka
based on 5,512 Soraka vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Brand
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Soraka in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several valuable Soraka vs. Brand matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Soraka typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Brand. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Soraka and Brand
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Who is Better, Soraka or Brand?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Soraka usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes a poor counter to Brand.
While Soraka does have a lower winrate than Brand, when on opposite teams, Soraka also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Soraka into Brand.
Additionally, Soraka has a great deal 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Soraka is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Soraka against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Soraka in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka typically gets less CS compared to Brand. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Soraka versus Brand build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Brand than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 48.3% battling Brand with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Brand as Soraka, Soraka players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Soraka vs Brand counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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