Talk:Vel'Koz/@comment-25953891-20150103192546/@comment-25953891-20150103220424

This is why for killing tanks I vastly perfer Brand. Sure he has worse lane presence because he has fewer and smaller AoEs and his range is smaller. But he has such massive synergy in the kit, because his passive counts as a spell. Each tick of his passive applies liandry and rylai slow. So in siege situations, you only need to land one spell and that's 30-40% of HP gone, while vel'koz needs to land multiple spells to benefit from the passive.

Brand with just rylai+liandry deals 8% max HP + 24% current HP with passive alone, not to mention extremely long 5.5 sec slow which is great in escapes or chasing. He doesn't gain much when you fire all your spells rapidly like the velkoz does though. He also has nice 2 sec stun on really short recharge too.