Ahri vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Ahri
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Ahri vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Brand
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Ahri vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several valuable Ahri versus Brand counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Ahri normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Brand. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Brand
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Who is Better, Ahri or Brand?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Brand, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Brand.
Additionally, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ahri is a terribly counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average accumulates more CS relative to Brand. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Ahri versus Brand build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Brand than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 47.1% when countering Brand with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Brand as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Ahri vs Brand clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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