Brand with Darius
How to Synergize Brand and Darius
based on 8,797 Brand with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Darius
Tips for Playing as Brand with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Brand Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Brand in LoL
The Brand Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Darius. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Darius helps Brand perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand is an ally to Darius, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Darius supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Darius.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Darius on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Darius does a decent job of covering Brand in teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Darius?
There is no top champion pairing for Brand that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Darius is a very typical ally for Brand. By being on the same team as Brand, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Brand and Darius that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Darius has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means Brand players don't need to be very careful when arranging Darius teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Brand and Darius together, you will not be giving your side much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Darius ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 in order to synergize with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Brand and Darius synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Darius than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Darius with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating 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 runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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