Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Lissandra perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Brand, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Brand does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played together with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Brand.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Brand on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Lissandra that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Brand is a very typical teammate for Lissandra. By playing on the same team as Lissandra, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Lissandra and Brand that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be cautious when lining up Brand comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Lissandra and Brand together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to synergize with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Lissandra and Brand synergy build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Brand than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Brand with Lissandra are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.