Brand vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Brand
based on 7,858 Brand vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Brand vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several valuable Brand against Zed counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between this set of champions. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Brand often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Zed. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Zed
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Who is Better, Brand or Zed?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Zed, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter to Zed.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Zed, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Zed.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Zed matchups, Brand is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Brand is a decent counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand to counter Zed 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically gets less CS relative to Zed. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Brand versus Zed build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Zed than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Zed with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Zed as Brand, you should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Brand vs Zed counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zed as Brand are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.