Brand vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Brand
based on 8,711 Brand vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Brand vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Brand in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Brand versus Thresh counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Brand usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Thresh
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Who is Better, Brand or Thresh?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Thresh, with a 55.1% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a fantastic counter for Thresh.
While Brand does have a much higher winrate than Thresh, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Thresh.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Thresh matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Brand is a great counter for Thresh. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Brand against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand to counter Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually gets more CS relative to Thresh. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Brand versus Thresh build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Thresh than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 55.1% when playing against Thresh with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Thresh as Brand, Brand players 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 rune builds players picked for Brand vs Thresh face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.1% winrate overall.
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