Brand vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Brand
based on 9,155 Brand vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Brand vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important Brand versus Malphite counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malphite..
Brand often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Malphite
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Who is Better, Brand or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Malphite, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter for Malphite.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Malphite, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Malphite.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Malphite matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Brand is a good counter to Malphite. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Malphite 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 stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand often gets less CS relative to Malphite. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Brand versus Malphite build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Malphite than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 52.6% battling Malphite with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Malphite 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Brand vs Malphite matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.6% win rate overall.
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