Brand vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Brand
based on 3,632 Brand vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Brand vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some important Brand versus Heimerdinger matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger..
Brand typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Brand or Heimerdinger?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Heimerdinger, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter for Heimerdinger.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Heimerdinger, when facing one another, Brand also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Heimerdinger.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Heimerdinger matchups, Brand is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Brand is a decent counter for Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often gets less CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Brand versus Heimerdinger build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 51.9% when playing against Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Heimerdinger as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Brand vs Heimerdinger LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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