Corki vs Brand Counter Pick

Brand’s Blaze stacks a damage-over-time effect on every spell that lands, and against a mixed-damage marksman that DoT adds up faster than Corki’s own trades can answer, which is a large part of why Corki wins only 43.3% of these 141 games on patch 16.13.1. Pillar of Flame and Conflagration both threaten from Brand’s own 550 range, matching Corki’s attack range exactly, so neither side gets a free poke window and Corki has to spend Phosphorus Bomb’s magic damage just to keep pace rather than pull ahead.

Sear’s stun only lands on targets already ablaze, meaning Corki has to break the DoT stacks quickly through positioning rather than absorbing them and hoping Hextech Munitions’ true damage closes the gap on its own. At level 18 Brand‘s 2,355 health and 95.4 armor are both lower than Corki’s 2,310 and 103.5, so the matchup is closer on paper than the win rate suggests, and the real difference is Pyroclasm — a five-bounce ultimate that can swing an entire trade in one cast if Corki and his support are grouped together during a skirmish near the tower. Brand’s Mage and Support classification and Corki’s own Marksman, Mage tagging both point to hybrid kits, and their base attack damage sits close, 57 for Brand against 52 for Corki, so neither wins a pure auto-attack race outright.