Zed vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Zed
based on 7,858 Zed vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Brand
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Zed versus Brand matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Zed often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Brand
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Who is Better, Zed or Brand?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a bad counter for Brand.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Brand, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed 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 teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Brand. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average accumulates more CS as Brand. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zed versus Brand build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Brand than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.1% battling Brand with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Brand as Zed, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Zed vs Brand battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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