User blog comment:Ozuar/Alright Brand players: Jungle Brand/@comment-9713132-20130214034844

Brand, as a primary AP Mid, is heavily reliant on mana costs and cooldown, much more so than most junglers. As such, he is dead meat and useless in the jungle without blue buff - in which a proper jungle invade will shut down Brand for the entirety of the game.

He lacks any form of sustain, and even though he has enough burst to sometimes clear jungle camps almost instantly, that's in mid - late game, and in early game, he'll have to recall a plenty amount of times because he lacks early clear speed and sustain.

Gank-wise, he's a caster - as such, any moves he makes involves a long-CD combo. Perhaps he has a little CC to keep them in, but it's unreliable and rather shoddy for a jungler, and a well-timed Flash, Cleanse or even a summoner Heal could keep Brand at bay for the majority of the game.