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.
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Brand vs. Sylas matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sylas..
Brand usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Sylas. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Sylas, with a 54.4% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a great counter to Sylas.
While Brand does have a much higher winrate compared to Sylas, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Sylas.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Sylas matchups, Brand is the better champion 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 Sylas. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Sylas.
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Sylas during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Brand versus Sylas build include Liandry's Anguish, Shard of True Ice, and Shadowflame. When Brand used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Sylas than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 54.4% when countering Sylas with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Sylas as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Brand vs Sylas counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.4% win rate overall.
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