Talk:Brand/@comment-24057773-20140519230651/@comment-4636093-20140605014334

Funnily enough Brand counters Annie in the mid lane.

Without Flash Annie has no way of getting close enough to him. And with Flash she can Flash stun ult and ignite him with her full burst, then he just presses R and bounces it between her and Tibbers and beats everything she did to him in one button press.

Annie gets reliability, versatility and is a lot easier to play. She can be played as a support or a mid, she can be built with an emphasis on magic pen or raw AP or CDR spam, she can even have a focus on becoming a tanky AP too. Annie has clicklock spells and her non-clicklock are almost impossible to miss. She has a lot of mana bonuses and doesn't need much mana regen. And her final boon over Brand is that she has constant sustained damage in a teamfight in the form of Tibbers' burning aura and her extremely spammable Q.

Brand has: Facemelting damage. The longest level 2 stun in the game, and even late game it's only matched by certain ultimates and Veigar's stun, did I mention this goes down to a 4 second cooldown with CDR? Brand has a gargantuan range advantage and is also the fastest moving ranged champion in the game when you compare cast animations. His passive constantly procs both Rylai's and Liandry's to the point where it can do an extra 2-300 damage to every target he even touches and keep them permaslowed.