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.
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Brand vs. Lux matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lux..
Brand typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Lux. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when playing against Lux, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Brand makes an ok counter for Lux.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Lux, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Lux.
Additionally, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Brand is a decent counter to Lux. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Brand against Lux.
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lux. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Brand versus Lux build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cosmic Drive, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Lux than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Lux with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Lux as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Brand vs Lux face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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