Talk:Brand/@comment-25122281-20160103175842/@comment-15280970-20160109072747

There will always be a champion with high win rate. If you nerf Brand will be lux  and Ahri. if you nerf them it will be Vel'koz. If you nerf them all we will return to Janna Wukong Jinx. Nerfing meta picks does shift the meta.

Take amumu for example, always in the top 5 WR. And a decent Play rate too. However, you do not just pick amumu blindly into any team, he has his weaknesses (mana issues, weak ganks pre 6, bad early game). You pick him when you need some CC, initiation and magic damage and at the same time do not have that much pressure early game. And most of the time the guy that picks him doesn't main jungle. In fact, players that actually main amumu (and pick him into any team) have the worst win rates with him.

Returning to Brand, he's immobile, he's skillshot based. He doesn't have a crazy range, nor can get fed safely without the risk of being bursted down. It's not so easy to farm/push with him either as his AOE isn't enough to get a good minion clear.

He just has a ridiculous amount of magic damage, mostly base damages including %health and DOT, which happens to fit the meta, but not for free.