Brand vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Brand
based on 6,728 Brand vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Brand vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several critical Brand versus Kayle counter stats that may help you explain the differences between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayle..
Brand typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kayle. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Kayle
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Who is Better, Brand or Kayle?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when taking on Kayle, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Brand makes an ok counter to Kayle.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Kayle, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Kayle.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Kayle matchups, Brand is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Brand is a decent counter for Kayle. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Kayle during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average gets a lot less CS relative to Kayle. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Brand versus Kayle build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Kayle than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Kayle with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Kayle as Brand, you 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 Kayle LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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