Talk:Brand/@comment-2112140-20141230181359/@comment-15244341-20150128204300

Brand's issues late game lie with his range and lack of mobility rather than his damage. He deals a crap ton of AoE damage, but like Lux, his cooldowns are at the crappy spot in which you have to spend a considerable amount of time sitting around in teamfights doing nothing. Lux doesn't care, since she has a shield to help her team at least. Brand mostly walks up, unleashes a combo and either dies or sits around being pretty for like 5 or 6 seconds.

Notice how the champions mentioned as being good late game AP carries have high DPS, rather than burst. And Brand's burst, while good, is not LeBlanc/Talon/Zed good (that is: full combo=dead squishy). Thus Brand has his AoE damage plus some nice burst and then does nothing. Meanwhile; Cassio, Azir and Karthus DPS your whole team down while having some sort of mobility/utility spell each (Cassio has a speed boost plus her ult, Karthus doesn't care about dying all that much and Azir pretty much screws people with ult and Q+E).

And Brand's stun is good, but it's just single target. That's fine in skirmishes and lane or for getting picks, but in teamfights it's not that hot.