Katarina vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Katarina
based on 8,087 Katarina vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Brand
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Katarina vs. Brand counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Brand. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Brand
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Who is Better, Katarina or Brand?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Brand, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Katarina into Brandas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Katarina is a trash counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often racks up more CS compared to Brand. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Katarina versus Brand build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Brand than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 47.4% battling Brand with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Brand as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina vs Brand counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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