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 Coup de Grace and Presence of Mind 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 Blackfire Torch as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Liandry's Torment. For your last 3 items, you should build Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass and finish with Cryptbloom. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - E - Q. Right now, this build has 53.6% winrate over 22 378 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Brand Mid 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 Coup de Grace with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Ability Haste in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Rylai's Crystal Scepter, which you should build first, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item and Liandry's Torment as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Blackfire Torch, Zhonya's Hourglass and Rabadon's Deathcap. The skill order for this build is W - E - Q. In the current patch, this build has a 57.0% win rate over 14 630 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 Coup de Grace with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree, as well as Ability Haste, 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 Blackfire Torch, Cryptbloom and Rabadon's Deathcap. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - E - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 57.3% win rate across 4 564 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, Dark Harvest, 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 Blackfire Torch 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 Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass and Cryptbloom. The ability order for this build is W - E - Q. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.5% win rate over 3 169 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.