Yasuo vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Yasuo
based on 15,513 Yasuo vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Brand
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Yasuo in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Yasuo vs. Brand counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Yasuo often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Brand
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Brand?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Yasuo makes a poor counter to Brand.
While Yasuo does have a lower winrate compared to Brand, when facing one another, Yasuo also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Yasuo into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yasuo 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo most often gets more CS compared to Brand. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Brand build include Blade of The Ruined King, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Brand than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Brand with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Brand as Yasuo, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Yasuo vs Brand counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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