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.
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
The stats shown on this page underscore some vital Brand vs. Fiddlesticks counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Fiddlesticks..
Brand usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Fiddlesticks. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when playing against Fiddlesticks, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Brand makes an ok counter to Fiddlesticks.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Fiddlesticks, when facing one another, Brand also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Fiddlesticks.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Brand is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Brand is a decent counter for Fiddlesticks. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Fiddlesticks.
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Fiddlesticks during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically racks up more CS compared to Fiddlesticks. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Brand versus Fiddlesticks build include Liandry's Anguish, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Shard of True Ice. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Fiddlesticks than with many other common builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 50.9% battling Fiddlesticks with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Fiddlesticks as Brand, you should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Brand vs Fiddlesticks counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Fiddlesticks as Brand are displayed for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.