Syndra vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Syndra
based on 5,086 Syndra vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Brand
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Syndra in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Syndra vs. Brand matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Syndra normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Brand. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Brand
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Who is Better, Syndra or Brand?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Syndra makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when on opposite teams, Syndra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Syndra into Brandas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Syndra also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Syndra vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Syndra is a trash counter to Brand. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Syndra against Brand.
Other Champion Matchups Against Syndra
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How We Calculated Our Syndra vs Brand Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Syndra in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra on average accumulates more CS compared to Brand. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Syndra versus Brand build include Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Brand than with most other common item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Brand with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Brand as Syndra, Syndra players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Syndra vs Brand LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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