Brand vs Sylas Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Brand is a mage/support hybrid, Sylas a mage/assassin hybrid, and they meet in the Support lane. Over 256 ranked games on patch 16.13.1, Brand closes out 44.1% of them. Sitting 5.9 points below the 50% line marks Sylas as a genuine problem pick for Brand.
Range decides much of the early game: Brand attacks from 550 units, Sylas from 175. The burden is on Sylas: Brand has no reason to walk into an even fight.
Brand looks for Conflagration (E); Sylas answers with Chain Lash (Q). The pressure spikes when Pyroclasm and Hijack come online together.
Brand and Sylas overlap on magic damage, so itemisation converges rather than splits. Level-one bases: Brand 570 HP / 24 armour / 30 MR, Sylas 600 / 29 / 32. The 5-armour edge belongs to Sylas. Scaling matters as well: Brand ends on 2355 HP, Sylas on 2674. Sylas also hits harder before items — 61 AD to 57.
Brand players logged 256 of these games to produce the 44.1% figure.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Sylas has the statistical edge. Brand wins 44.1% of the recorded games.
44.1% from Brand's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
256 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Brand build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Brand build page.