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 Samira 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, Samira sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Brand helps Samira perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira tries to synergize with Brand, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Brand does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira 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 Samira plays with Brand on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Samira during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Samira that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Brand is a pretty good teammate for Samira. By playing on the same side as Samira, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 50.3%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Samira and Brand that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Brand allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Samira and Brand together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of tankyness. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Brand teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Samira to work well with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Samira and Brand synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Hubris. When Samira combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Brand than with many other typical builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 50.3% helping carry Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Samira and Brand pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Brand with Samira are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.