Illaoi with Brand
How to Synergize Illaoi and Brand
based on 4,601 Illaoi with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Brand Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Brand
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Brand
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Brand helps Illaoi perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is paired with Brand, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Brand provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Brand on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Brand
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Brand?
There is no perfect companion for Illaoi that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Brand is a decent ally for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Illaoi and Brand that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Brand teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Illaoi and Brand together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Illaoi to work well with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Illaoi and Brand synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Brand than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Brand with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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