Brand with Xerath
How to Synergize Brand and Xerath
based on 5,250 Brand with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Brand vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Brand with Xerath
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Brand Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Brand in LoL
The Brand Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Brand perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand plays on the same team as Xerath, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Xerath doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Xerath on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Brand in teamfights.
Synergies between Brand and Xerath
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Is Brand better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Brand that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Xerath is a very typical teammate for Brand. By playing on the same team as Brand, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 50.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Brand and Xerath that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means you should be very careful when arranging Xerath comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Brand players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Brand and Xerath together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Brand and Xerath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Xerath than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Xerath with Brand are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.