Brand vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Brand
based on 10,880 Brand vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Brand vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some vital Brand against Hwei matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Hwei..
Brand often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Hwei. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Hwei
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Who is Better, Brand or Hwei?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 53.9% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a great counter to Hwei.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Hwei, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Hwei.
Moreover, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Hwei matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Brand is a great counter to Hwei. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand to counter Hwei during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually picks up less CS as Hwei. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Brand versus Hwei build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Hwei than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 53.9% when playing against Hwei with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Hwei as Brand, you should take 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 combinations that we analyzed for Brand vs Hwei counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.9% win rate overall.
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