Brand·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Brand Top 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 Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Rylai's Crystal Scepter as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Liandry's Torment. For your last 3 items, you should build Zhonya's Hourglass, Morellonomicon and finish with Shadowflame. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 56.3% winrate over 320 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Brand Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Liandry's Torment, which you should build first, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item and Rylai's Crystal Scepter as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame and Cryptbloom. The skill order for this build is W - Q - E. In the current patch, this build has a 55.2% win rate over 105 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight 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 Blackfire Torch as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Liandry's Torment as a third item. You want to finish the build with Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom and Shadowflame. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 52.8% win rate across 53 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.