Naafiri vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Naafiri
based on 3,158 Naafiri vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Brand
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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.
Naafiri vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Naafiri in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Naafiri vs. Brand counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Brand. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Naafiri usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Naafiri and Brand
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Brand?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Brand, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes an ok counter for Brand.
While Naafiri does have a lower win rate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Brand.
Additionally, Naafiri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri on average accumulates more CS relative to Brand. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Naafiri versus Brand build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when playing against Brand with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Brand as Naafiri, Naafiri players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure 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 Naafiri vs Brand counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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