Brand vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Brand
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Brand vs Azir Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Azir as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Azir
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.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Brand vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Brand against Azir matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Brand typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Azir
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Who is Better, Brand or Azir?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Azir, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter for Azir.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Azir.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Azir matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Brand is a good counter to Azir. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Azir. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Brand versus Azir build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Azir than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Azir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Azir as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Brand vs Azir battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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