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.
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
The Brand Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Soraka helps Brand perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand plays on the same team as Soraka, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Soraka supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Soraka on the same team, 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 Soraka.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Soraka on the same team, he on average receives much more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Brand in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Brand that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Soraka is a pretty good companion for Brand. By playing on the same team as Brand, she increases their win rate by 1.3% to 52.7%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Brand and Soraka that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means Brand players don't need to be cautious when finding Soraka teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Brand and Soraka together, you may not be giving your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Brand to work well with Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Brand and Soraka synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Soraka than with many other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 52.7% when playing alongside Soraka with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Soraka with Brand are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.