Malphite vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Malphite
based on 9,155 Malphite vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Brand
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Malphite in LoL
The stats provided here show several influential Malphite against Brand matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Malphite normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Brand. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malphite and Brand
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Who is Better, Malphite or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malphite usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Malphite makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Malphite does have a lower winrate compared to Brand, when they face off with one another, Malphite also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Malphite into Brand.
Furthermore, Malphite also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. 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 Malphite vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Malphite is a terribly counter to Brand. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Malphite against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malphite 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite on average racks up more CS relative to Brand. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Malphite versus Brand build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Brand than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Brand with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Brand as Malphite, Malphite players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Malphite vs Brand fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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