Brand with Alistar
How to Synergize Brand and Alistar
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Brand Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Brand with Alistar
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Brand Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Brand in LoL
The Brand Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Brand perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand tries to synergize with Alistar, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Alistar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Alistar on the same team, he typically takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Alistar does a poor job of covering Brand in teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top champion pairing for Brand that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Alistar is a pretty good companion for Brand. By playing on the same team as Brand, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 52.4%. This shows that there is a good bond between Brand and Alistar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means Brand players must be very careful when arranging Alistar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Brand and Alistar together, you probably will not be giving your side enough attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Brand and Alistar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 52.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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