Your level is already pretty good and you look at stuff critically probably can get diamond without too much trouble. From what I notice game 1: warding wise I recommend dropping first ward on raptors at 1:25 makes it really easy to predict enemy jg pathing you will see what he started and where he paths so basically first 3+ minutes you know where enemy jg is. For wards after that you should push wave walk to river and get a good ward there whenever trinket is up and you have downtime. You didnt buy any control wards, if you dont want to buy a lot of control wards just buying 1 and placing it in defensive position will provide a lot of value - these defensive ward can stay up to 10 minutes untouched some games. Macro wise you said yourself a lot of overchase and random fights, some stuff you didnt notice was you and your team ignored objectives, with wining mid and prio you want to ping every single objective and do it on spawn, shotcall your team, brand is amazing at taking objectives insane dmg. Baron was not taken a single time this game when it was free to take many times, probably just needed a ping from you. If team doesnt listen so be it, but trying to shotcall the correct play is what matters most. You ended up ending the game without baron but that was a big risk for no reason they almost aced you there. mechanics wise you are using your spells either too fast or too slow at times. If enemy is dodging like with Jinx just holding spells is rly good, start with e and just play it slow and patient no reason to blow your whole load in 1 second when its high chance to miss it. someone wrote about w max, its just based on matchup against Kata your W is never landing so E max was correct. In general in mid E max is better, can consider W if enemy low mobility. You mostly used W into E on lane. Q into E is faster and costs less mana. Dont be afraid to throw q just for slow u dont always need the stun after u have Rylais. R into Q is nice combo I saw u do it this game way faster than E Q or W Q. vm.tiktok.com/ZGeCrJYhf/ Here is brand played insanely clean, his movement, spacing, ability usage is close to perfect. He uses burn passive to its full limit, he doesnt shoot all spells at once, he waits for the passive to almost run out and then reaplies the burn while staying outside the range of enemy the whole time. Basically maximizing damage, of course in some cases you need to use spells fast - as you see in video when he needs to - he fast combo, when he doesnt need to - slow combo is best. He does go for a rylais rush + comet set up you could give it a try, liandry is more dmg but rylais allows for that crazy kiting, into immobile matchups looks to be amazing. I could look into game 2 as well tomorrow
Woah man thank you so much for this analysis. This is exactly the kind of community I want to build. I will absolutely take this to heart and work on it. I'm having a shitty week of ranked games atm just playing badly and getting auto filled. But I believe I can climb if I stick with it.
@@culverwhy yeah league is a lot about mental it can be very hard to not get tilted and let it affect your gameplay. Especially on those loss streaks. A bit unrelated but I can give an example with my brother he played like 1400+ games in a single season and was hardstuck plat. But he was only mindlessly spamming games, he had the knowledge to climb in there but he didnt use it. Then he started thinking about the game critically and watched a lot of educational content and basically imediately got diamond and then the next season master without too much trouble. I feel you are the same you have it in there just need to make use of that info and make it "click"
@@cannus1045 thank you for that inspiration. I took the weekend off to do other things so I can be fresh this week and hit a grind after work every day. Hopefully I make some progress for this week's video.
Some comments 7:50 - As a general rule never go for the second tower as an immobile champion like brand, unless you see literally everyone on the map. Zed should've killed you long before he did. Also, you have really good vision botside that DOESN'T show zed - which means he is most likely coming to get you right now. It's ok to chill back when you don't see the jungler, unless you have to skills to track their position 11:44 - what are you staying for? You are low on mana and hp and your team is not contesting anything, recall spend your money (husum reference
Also 30:00 - if you tped top orianna would just there just in time to stop you from hitting tower and you wouldve wasted your tp. You are not a splitpusher as a brand Instead your graves just dropped a rift herald - or you can push with bot trying to take the tower (or hover them wating for enemy to engage) 32:00 - you never engage him there, game losing angle if you do. You see noone, even if you had vision on drake you don't know where their team is and you would need to chase him almost into their jungle
I am very very new to league, but i would recommend pinging wards. It helps the jungler and you get 5 gold. Maybe there is a reason not to ping them, idk. Gl on your climb
I am not super good at the game, but the questions you are asking are not the most efficient at figuring out what you did wrong. I have only watched the first game, but based on that I can see a lack of knowledge and a sense of uncertainty. A lot of the early to mid game was talking about wards, which is fine, but is not game winning. Things that I expected to be talked about is champion matchup/synergy, champion identity, wave 1 2 and 3 strategy, win condition, etc. An example would be how the Katarina vs Brand matchup was never mentioned. It seemed as if you were mindlessly pushing waves for prio when you dont need prio in this matchup. Hope this helps and good luck
I think i need to push waves here to stop the katarina from roaming to be honest. If i let it crash repeatedly she can just run around killing everyone. just my opinion!
@@kmiotek9078Your bot lane is Tahm Kench Karma, the only person Katarina can roam on is smolder but he is perma dying to Vayne. That means that Katarina only way of getting fed is killing the brand in the matchup. In this case it's best to play it safe since your bot is hard winning and scale rather than be risk and push for prio. If you push for prio you could get collapsed on by Zed, which gives an opportunity for enemy assassins to take over the game.
@@kito6372 Fair enough. Didn't consider the bot matchup (as it wasn't shown at all :P). Although I'm unsure if letting Katarina have prio helps with not dying from her + zed - wouldn't it be better to just hit wave with his spells and immediately fade away, and repeat? Even if he is close to his tower if Katarina and Zed both dash unto him he will most likely die, no?
You should try getting more comfortable with your W, and maxing it first is highest damage spell from brand, altho champs like Katarina and Zed still max E just cause they can TP for free, I do play him more jungle so not 100% on ori but i think landing W shouldnt be too bad on her given PR is less common now. Any match ups you think are really easy you even start taking first strike into to scale faster summoner spells could try ghost more i go it 90% of time since brand is immobile and it feels good
ok i will definitely try it, i just had more luck poking with the E in most mid matchups and getting the poke mid for me helps take a lot of pressure off and get my confidence up.
Thank you for the insight. I'm gonna test that to see if I can make it work. All week I've been trying other champions to see what is best for me and get a 2nd and 3rd pick in case I can't do brand rn. So I haven't played brand much this week
Your level is already pretty good and you look at stuff critically probably can get diamond without too much trouble.
From what I notice game 1:
warding wise I recommend dropping first ward on raptors at 1:25 makes it really easy to predict enemy jg pathing you will see what he started and where he paths so basically first 3+ minutes you know where enemy jg is. For wards after that you should push wave walk to river and get a good ward there whenever trinket is up and you have downtime. You didnt buy any control wards, if you dont want to buy a lot of control wards just buying 1 and placing it in defensive position will provide a lot of value - these defensive ward can stay up to 10 minutes untouched some games.
Macro wise you said yourself a lot of overchase and random fights, some stuff you didnt notice was you and your team ignored objectives, with wining mid and prio you want to ping every single objective and do it on spawn, shotcall your team, brand is amazing at taking objectives insane dmg. Baron was not taken a single time this game when it was free to take many times, probably just needed a ping from you. If team doesnt listen so be it, but trying to shotcall the correct play is what matters most. You ended up ending the game without baron but that was a big risk for no reason they almost aced you there.
mechanics wise you are using your spells either too fast or too slow at times. If enemy is dodging like with Jinx just holding spells is rly good, start with e and just play it slow and patient no reason to blow your whole load in 1 second when its high chance to miss it. someone wrote about w max, its just based on matchup against Kata your W is never landing so E max was correct. In general in mid E max is better, can consider W if enemy low mobility. You mostly used W into E on lane. Q into E is faster and costs less mana. Dont be afraid to throw q just for slow u dont always need the stun after u have Rylais. R into Q is nice combo I saw u do it this game way faster than E Q or W Q.
vm.tiktok.com/ZGeCrJYhf/
Here is brand played insanely clean, his movement, spacing, ability usage is close to perfect. He uses burn passive to its full limit, he doesnt shoot all spells at once, he waits for the passive to almost run out and then reaplies the burn while staying outside the range of enemy the whole time. Basically maximizing damage, of course in some cases you need to use spells fast - as you see in video when he needs to - he fast combo, when he doesnt need to - slow combo is best. He does go for a rylais rush + comet set up you could give it a try, liandry is more dmg but rylais allows for that crazy kiting, into immobile matchups looks to be amazing.
I could look into game 2 as well tomorrow
Woah man thank you so much for this analysis. This is exactly the kind of community I want to build. I will absolutely take this to heart and work on it. I'm having a shitty week of ranked games atm just playing badly and getting auto filled. But I believe I can climb if I stick with it.
@@culverwhy yeah league is a lot about mental it can be very hard to not get tilted and let it affect your gameplay. Especially on those loss streaks.
A bit unrelated but I can give an example with my brother he played like 1400+ games in a single season and was hardstuck plat. But he was only mindlessly spamming games, he had the knowledge to climb in there but he didnt use it. Then he started thinking about the game critically and watched a lot of educational content and basically imediately got diamond and then the next season master without too much trouble. I feel you are the same you have it in there just need to make use of that info and make it "click"
@@cannus1045 thank you for that inspiration. I took the weekend off to do other things so I can be fresh this week and hit a grind after work every day. Hopefully I make some progress for this week's video.
Some comments
7:50 - As a general rule never go for the second tower as an immobile champion like brand, unless you see literally everyone on the map. Zed should've killed you long before he did. Also, you have really good vision botside that DOESN'T show zed - which means he is most likely coming to get you right now. It's ok to chill back when you don't see the jungler, unless you have to skills to track their position
11:44 - what are you staying for? You are low on mana and hp and your team is not contesting anything, recall spend your money (husum reference
Also 30:00 - if you tped top orianna would just there just in time to stop you from hitting tower and you wouldve wasted your tp. You are not a splitpusher as a brand
Instead your graves just dropped a rift herald - or you can push with bot trying to take the tower (or hover them wating for enemy to engage)
32:00 - you never engage him there, game losing angle if you do. You see noone, even if you had vision on drake you don't know where their team is and you would need to chase him almost into their jungle
i really appreciate the feedback bro! thank you.
I am very very new to league, but i would recommend pinging wards. It helps the jungler and you get 5 gold. Maybe there is a reason not to ping them, idk. Gl on your climb
Great advice my friend thank you!
I am not super good at the game, but the questions you are asking are not the most efficient at figuring out what you did wrong. I have only watched the first game, but based on that I can see a lack of knowledge and a sense of uncertainty. A lot of the early to mid game was talking about wards, which is fine, but is not game winning. Things that I expected to be talked about is champion matchup/synergy, champion identity, wave 1 2 and 3 strategy, win condition, etc. An example would be how the Katarina vs Brand matchup was never mentioned. It seemed as if you were mindlessly pushing waves for prio when you dont need prio in this matchup. Hope this helps and good luck
Fair criticism thank you my guy
Why do you not need prio in this matchup? Genuinely asking (I'm E3 mid main, but relatively new to the game)
I think i need to push waves here to stop the katarina from roaming to be honest. If i let it crash repeatedly she can just run around killing everyone. just my opinion!
@@kmiotek9078Your bot lane is Tahm Kench Karma, the only person Katarina can roam on is smolder but he is perma dying to Vayne. That means that Katarina only way of getting fed is killing the brand in the matchup. In this case it's best to play it safe since your bot is hard winning and scale rather than be risk and push for prio. If you push for prio you could get collapsed on by Zed, which gives an opportunity for enemy assassins to take over the game.
@@kito6372 Fair enough. Didn't consider the bot matchup (as it wasn't shown at all :P). Although I'm unsure if letting Katarina have prio helps with not dying from her + zed - wouldn't it be better to just hit wave with his spells and immediately fade away, and repeat? Even if he is close to his tower if Katarina and Zed both dash unto him he will most likely die, no?
You should try getting more comfortable with your W, and maxing it first is highest damage spell from brand, altho champs like Katarina and Zed still max E just cause they can TP for free, I do play him more jungle so not 100% on ori but i think landing W shouldnt be too bad on her given PR is less common now. Any match ups you think are really easy you even start taking first strike into to scale faster
summoner spells could try ghost more i go it 90% of time since brand is immobile and it feels good
ok i will definitely try it, i just had more luck poking with the E in most mid matchups and getting the poke mid for me helps take a lot of pressure off and get my confidence up.
@@culverwhy E max is more safe and consistent I think, but W will have more value if you land it consistently
is more preference i think
Thank you for the insight. I'm gonna test that to see if I can make it work. All week I've been trying other champions to see what is best for me and get a 2nd and 3rd pick in case I can't do brand rn. So I haven't played brand much this week
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