Vladimir vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Vladimir
based on 6,484 Vladimir vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Brand
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Vladimir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some vital Vladimir versus Brand counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Vladimir often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Brand. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vladimir and Brand
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Brand?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Vladimir makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Vladimir does have a lower win rate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Vladimir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vladimir into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vladimir also has almost no 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Vladimir is a garbage counter to Brand. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vladimir against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir usually racks up more CS relative to Brand. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vladimir versus Brand build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Stormsurge. When Vladimir used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Brand than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 47.2% when playing against Brand with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Brand as Vladimir, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Vladimir vs Brand matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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