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.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several valuable Brand against Volibear matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Volibear..
Brand usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Volibear. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when taking on Volibear, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Brand makes an ok counter to Volibear.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Volibear, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Volibear.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Volibear. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Volibear matchups, Brand is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Brand is a decent counter for Volibear. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Volibear.
To truly master Brand to counter Volibear 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Volibear. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Brand versus Volibear build consist of Liandry's Anguish, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Demonic Embrace. When Brand included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Volibear than with many other typical builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Volibear with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Volibear as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Brand vs Volibear LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Volibear as Brand are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.