Sylas vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Sylas
based on 7,417 Sylas vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Brand
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Sylas vs. Brand matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Sylas often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Brand. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Brand
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Who is Better, Sylas or Brand?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sylas usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Sylas does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when facing one another, Sylas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Sylas into Brand.
Moreover, Sylas has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sylas 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 allies during team fights.
Sylas is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas most often picks up more CS compared to Brand. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Sylas versus Brand build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Brand than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Brand as Sylas, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Sylas vs Brand fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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