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.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Brand Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yasuo helps Brand perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand tries to synergize with Yasuo, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may indicate that Yasuo provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yasuo.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Yasuo on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Yasuo does a poor job of covering Brand in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Brand that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a pretty good ally for Brand. By locking into the same team as Brand, he improves their win rate by 2.5% to 53.9%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Brand and Yasuo that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means you must be very careful when arranging Yasuo allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Brand and Yasuo together, you may not be giving your side enough engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yasuo teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Brand in order to work well with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Brand and Yasuo synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Yasuo than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 53.9% helping carry Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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 combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.9% win rate overall.
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