Thresh vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Thresh
based on 8,711 Thresh vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Brand
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Thresh against Brand counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between these two champions. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Brand. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Brand
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Who is Better, Thresh or Brand?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 44.9% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Thresh does have a much lower winrate compared to Brand, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a lot 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 overall in League of Legends, in Thresh 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.
Thresh is a garbage counter for Brand. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often picks up less CS relative to Brand. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Brand build consist of Knight's Vow, Solstice Sleigh, and Force of Nature. When Thresh included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Brand than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 44.9% when playing against Brand with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Brand as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Thresh vs Brand counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.9% winrate overall.
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