Brand vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Brand
based on 4,748 Brand vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Talon
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 Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Brand vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Brand in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several influential Brand against Talon matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Talon’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Talon..
Brand usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Talon. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Talon
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Who is Better, Brand or Talon?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Talon, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter for Talon.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Talon, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Talon.
Moreover, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Talon matchups, Brand is the better champ with a higher 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 to Talon. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Brand against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand in order to counter Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually picks up less CS relative to Talon. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Brand versus Talon build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Talon than with many other typical builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 51.6% battling Talon with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Talon as Brand, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Brand vs Talon counters, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
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