Brand·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Brand Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Arcane Comet as your keystone, followed by Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, as well as Presence of Mind and Coup de Grace in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Liandry's Torment as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. For your last 3 items, you should build Zhonya's Hourglass, Morellonomicon and finish with Void Staff. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - E - Q. Right now, this build has 57.0% winrate over 2 105 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Dark Harvest as your keystone, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Scorch in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Liandry's Torment as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Rylai's Crystal Scepter as a third item. You want to finish the build with Zhonya's Hourglass, Morellonomicon and Void Staff. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - E - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 51.8% win rate across 303 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Brand Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Manaflow Band with Scorch as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Rylai's Crystal Scepter as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Liandry's Torment as third item. The last 3 options are Zhonya's Hourglass, Morellonomicon and Shadowflame. The ability order for this build is W - E - Q. As of the current patch, this build has a 56.7% win rate over 97 matches played.

Situational Brand Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Brand build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.