Brand vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Brand
based on 4,459 Brand vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Brand vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here show some influential Brand against Kindred matchup stats that may help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kindred..
Brand often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Kindred. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Kindred
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Who is Better, Brand or Kindred?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when trying to fight Kindred, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter to Kindred.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Kindred, when facing one another, Brand also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Kindred.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Kindred matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Brand is an above average counter to Kindred. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Kindred 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 shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often accumulates more CS compared to Kindred. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Brand versus Kindred build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Kindred than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when playing against Kindred with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Kindred as Brand, you 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 runes players used for Brand vs Kindred counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.7% win rate overall.
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