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.
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
The Brand Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Thresh helps Brand perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand is paired with Thresh, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Thresh helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Thresh 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 alongside Thresh.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Thresh on the same team, he usually receives much more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Thresh does a poor job of covering Brand in team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Brand that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Thresh is a below average ally for Brand. By being on the same team as Brand, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Brand and Thresh that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means you should be cautious when finding Thresh allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Brand and Thresh together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Thresh teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to work well with Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Brand and Thresh synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Brand bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Thresh than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Thresh 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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