User blog comment:Ozuar/Alright Brand players: Jungle Brand/@comment-128.230.241.31-20130213182440

Can you jungle Brand? Yeah, absolutely. Should you do it? Hell no.

Brand is shit in the jungle because of his horrifying Cooldowns (something that limits him in lane as well, mind you), his piss-poor attack damage/speed, and the fact that he has no sustain. The jungle is better suited for champs that can obliterate single targets quickly rather than spam AoE, so you're vastly overestimating the clearing power of Pillars. Once you have a few levels into these abilities, sure, but early on, you'll be struggling to clear a camp without dying. That's the other thing. Brand will get stomped by literally any jungler that decides to counterjungle him. Whether it's invading his blue (so now you're totally useless because you can't clear), or simply picking a fight when he's taking wolves, chances are, Brand is going to lose, and lose very, very hard. Ultimately, his ganks are not nearly powerful or relaible enough with a skillshot conditional stun to make up for the fact that he clears slow, has no sustain, and gets buttraped by anyone who happens to wander by.