Brand with Kalista
How to Synergize Brand and Kalista
based on 1,733 Brand with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Brand vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Brand with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Brand Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Brand in LoL
The Brand Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kalista helps Brand perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand is paired with Kalista, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Kalista helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kalista.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Kalista on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kalista does a poor job of protecting Brand during teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no top companion for Brand that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Kalista is a very typical companion for Brand. By playing on the same team as Brand, she drops their win rate by -0.8% to 50.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Brand and Kalista that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Kalista comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Brand players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Brand and Kalista together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of tankyness. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 pair well with Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Brand and Kalista synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kalista than with many other typical builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Brand and Kalista pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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