How to win lane as Brand against Vladimir · 45.19% win rate (2,142 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Your passive burns percent-MAX-health — the anti-Vlad clause. Poke him off every CS; his pool dodges one spell of a three-spell rotation.
Track: Vladimir's W — Sanguine Pool (28–16s cooldown). Untargetable dodge — bait it before you spend your kill window.
Read from Brand's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Vladimir.
This is Brand's own plan; across 2,142 pooled games the lane is leaning Vladimir.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Brand | Level 1: Pillar of Flame outranges Transfusion by 300 units, so you chip faster than his Q heals back. |
| Level 2 | Brand | Level 2: E adds the ablaze that makes Sear a stun, and he has no dash out of the pillar. |
| Level 3 | Brand | Level 3: your Pillar poke starts outpacing his sustain since he hasn't stacked bonus HP, tipping lane your way. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5: your combo and Ablaze stacking chunk him faster than Transfusion can heal back, keeping you ahead. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Level 6: Sanguine Pool is 2s of untargetability on a 28s cooldown, so the R you hold until he surfaces still lands. |
| First item | Even / skill | 1st item: your burst still out-trades his healing and poke at this stage of itemization. |
| Two+ items | Vladimir | 2+ items: his Crimson Pact bonus HP and Hemoplague-amplified burst finally scale past your damage output, flipping the late-game favor to Vladimir. |
Levels 1-2 already favour you: Pillar of Flame reaches 900 where Transfusion reaches 600, so he pays health for every step up. By levels 3-5 the gap widens — his bonus HP from items hasn't scaled yet, so W plus Ablaze stacking chunks him faster than his free Q recovers, and he is forced into a defensive farming pattern. Track Sanguine Pool (W): 28s at rank 1, 16s maxed, and only 2s of untargetability — that gap is your whole kill window, so bait it and commit after.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Brand's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Brand vs Vladimir report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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Vladimir, slightly — Brand wins 45.19% of 2,142 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Vladimir has a small statistical edge (54.81% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Vladimir has the slight edge (Brand wins 45.19%), though it stays close.
Brand takes Arcane Comet on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Inspiration secondary (Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight) vs Vladimir.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Oblivion Orb (≈800g) — cuts his sustain. Build Liandry's Torment first, then Shadowflame, with Sorcerer's Shoes / Mercury's Treads.
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