K'Sante with Brand
How to Synergize K'Sante and Brand
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K'Sante Brand Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Brand
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Brand
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Advice to Understand How Brand Will Play
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.
K'Sante Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps K'Sante perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When K'Sante plays on the same team as Brand, they sees a marginal improvement in their full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Brand provides protection for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Brand.
Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Brand on the same side, they often takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting K'Sante during teamfights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Brand
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Brand?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for K'Sante that will always be their top teammate. However, Brand is a decent teammate for K'Sante. By being on the same side as K'Sante, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between K'Sante and Brand that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than K'Sante. That means K'Sante players don't need to be careful when finding Brand teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing K'Sante and Brand together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master K'Sante in order to synergize with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your K'Sante and Brand synergy build include Unending Despair, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three great items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Brand than with many other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, K'Sante players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Brand with K'Sante are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.