League of Legends' Brand Regains Mana With Pillar of Flame on PBE

Brand has a pretty simple mana-refunding change on the League of Legends PBE that could help bring [...]

League of Legends Brand
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Brand has a pretty simple mana-refunding change on the League of Legends PBE that could help bring the fiery mage back to the mid lane.

League players who main the mid laner/support champ can actually shoot for getting all of their mana back every time they fire off a Pillar of Flame, a change that would definitely help make the AP champion feel a bit better when he's on his own. Currently being tested on the PBE, Brand's Pillar of Flame ability gives back a bit of mana for every unit that dies to the fiery pillar.

When it was first added to the testing environment, Brand would start by regaining six mana per unit killed by his W, a number that would scale up with the ability's level. That mana returns apparently wasn't enough to be impactful enough for the mage, and the most recent PBE update reported by Surrender@20 shows the number has been more than tripled, now starting at 20 mana per unit.

  • Pillar of Flame (W)
    • [New Effect] "Brand gains 20/25/30/35/40 mana if this ability kills a unit."

For reference, Pillar of Flame currently costs 60 mana at level one to cast, the number rising to 100 mana at max level. This means that if Brand can kill at least three minions with his Pillar of Flame, he can regain all of the mana that he used. By managing the wave correctly, a mid-lane Brand will essentially have an AOE version of Annie's Disintegrate while trading off the cooldown return for a shot at gaining more mana than was expended.

The changes on the PBE follow a recent update from Riot Meddler where the Rioter discussed the possibility of tweaking Brand a bit to make him more viable on his own. Meddler mentioned that they'd be looking into restoring mana with particular spells to help out "non-support Brand specifically." He stated that it probably wouldn't solve all of Brand's problems, but it'd definitely help.

Brand's PBE values have already changed once, so they could very well be altered again before the buff potentially goes live in the next patch.

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