Darius with Brand
How to Synergize Darius and Brand
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Darius Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Brand
Tips for Playing as Darius with Brand
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.
Advice to Understand How Brand Will Play
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.
Darius Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Darius in LoL
The Darius Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Darius sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Brand helps Darius perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Darius tries to synergize with Brand, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Brand helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played together with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Brand.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Brand on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Darius in teamfights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Brand?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Darius that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Brand is a pretty good teammate for Darius. By being on the same team as Darius, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 51.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Darius and Brand that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Brand has a greater difficulty than Darius. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Brand comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Darius and Brand together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Darius in order to work well with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Darius and Brand synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Darius included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Brand than with most other common item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Brand with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Brand with Darius are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.