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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Brand Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 Azir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Azir helps Brand perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand plays on the same team as Azir, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Azir doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Azir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Azir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Azir.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Azir on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Azir does a poor job of protecting Brand during team fights.
There is no top synergy for Brand that will always be his best synergy. However, Azir is a very typical ally for Brand. By being on the same team as Brand, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 50.4%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Brand and Azir that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Azir has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means Brand players need to be careful when finding Azir allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Brand players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Brand and Azir together, you may not be providing your team enough engage potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Azir ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to synergize with Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Brand and Azir synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Azir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 50.4% helping carry Azir with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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