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.
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
The stat comparisons provided here show some valuable Brand against Diana counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Diana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Diana..
Brand often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Diana. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when playing against Diana, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes an ok counter for Diana.
While Brand does have a lower win rate compared to Diana, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Diana.
Additionally, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is a somewhat poor counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Diana.
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Diana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically picks up less CS as Diana. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Brand versus Diana build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Diana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 49.9% battling Diana with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Diana as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Brand vs Diana battles, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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