Like Wildfire
Dark Harvest
Damaging a Champion below 50% health deals
adaptive damage and harvests their soul, permanently increasing Dark Harvest's damage by 11.
Dark Harvest damage: 30 (+11 damage per soul) (+0.1 bonus AD) (+0.05 AP)
Cooldown: 35s (resets to 1.0s on takedown)Why?
Dark Harvest is an excellent rune choice for securing easy kills thanks to your ability to easily proc it with the use of your high burst and passive dot.
Taste of Blood
Heal when you damage an enemy champion.
Healing: 16-40 (+0.1 bonus AD, +0.05 AP) health (based on level)
Cooldown: 20sWhy?
Taste of Blood allows you to trade early and often in lane, making good use of your high base damage.
Grisly Mementos
Collect 1 memento on champion
takedowns , up to 18 total.
Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected. In game modes where vision Trinkets do not exist, instead gain 3 Summoner Spell Haste.Why?
Grisly Mementos Stacks are relatively easy to acquire in teamfights/skirmishes where you're able to tag multiple people with your [R] and passive explosion.
Treasure Hunter
Gain an additional
50 gold the next time you collect a Bounty Hunter stack. Increase the gold gained by20 gold for each Bounty Hunter stack, up to130 gold .
Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.Why?
Ravenous Hunter's spell vamp synergizes incredibly well with you high base damage and passive DoT allows you to play aggressively while staying healthy.
Manaflow Band
Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.
After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 15 secondsWhy?
Manaflow Band acts as your primary means of mana regeneration (paired with your support item).
Scorch
Your next damaging ability hit sets champions on fire dealing 20 - 40 bonus magic damage based on level after 1s.
Cooldown: 10sWhy?
Scorch doubles down on your early game damage dominance, setting you up for early kills and snowballing a lead.
Blaze a Trail
Arcane Comet
Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a comet at their location, or, if Arcane Comet is on cooldown, reduces its remaining cooldown.
Adaptive Damage : 30 - 130 based on level (+0.05 AP and+0.1 bonus AD )
Cooldown: 20 - 8s
Cooldown Reduction:
Single Target: 20%.
Area of Effect: 10%.
Damage over Time: 5%.Why?
Brand is a champion that can quite regularly land Comet once you have Rylai's. The DoT from his passive also helps dramatically reduce the cooldown of Comet while they are burning.
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Manaflow Band
Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.
After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 15 secondsWhy?
As a high damage support, your job is to provide **lane pressure with frequent harass** from ability spam. Manaflow provides you the mana sustain to keep the pressure up. Pay attention to the cooldown and try to **utilize the mana refund on [W]**, your highest costing ability.
Absolute Focus
While above 70% health, gain an
adaptive bonus of up to 18 Attack Damage or 30 Ability Power (based on level).
Grants 1.8 Attack Damage or 3 Ability Power at level 1.Why?
Brand's ability to take over the laning phase with his immense damage is unrivaled. A few early [W]s for poke with Absolute Focus can win you the lane.
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Scorch
Your next damaging ability hit sets champions on fire dealing 20 - 40 bonus magic damage based on level after 1s.
Cooldown: 10sWhy?
Scorch is a rune that really plays up on heavy lane aggresison and dies off over the course of the game. If you expect to game to go to late you can forgo that early damage for scaling with Gathering Storm instead.
Magical Footwear
You get free Slightly Magical Footwear at 12 min, but you cannot buy boots before then. For each takedown you acquire the boots 45s sooner.
Slightly Magical Footwear grants you an additional10 Move Speed .Why?
Magical Footwear allows you to take advantage of your aggressive laning phase damage by snowballing any kills/assists you pick up into a father damage itemization.
Cosmic Insight
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18 Summoner Spell Haste
+10 Item HasteWhy?
Cosmic Insight's well-rounded utility provides you more damage in the form of CDR and kill potential with Summoner CDR.