Kassadin vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Kassadin
based on 2,962 Kassadin vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Brand
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Kassadin vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Kassadin in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Kassadin vs. Brand matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand..
Kassadin usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Brand. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Brand
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Brand?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Kassadin makes a poor counter to Brand.
While Kassadin does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when facing one another, Kassadin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kassadin into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kassadin is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kassadin in order to counter Brand 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 suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin typically accumulates more CS compared to Brand. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Kassadin versus Brand build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Brand than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 48.8% battling Brand with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Brand as Kassadin, Kassadin players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kassadin vs Brand counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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