Talk:Braum/@comment-4290320-20140608154715/@comment-5955640-20140608205047

Did you just skip the part where I mentioned that he can't block AOE's and he has next to no immunity to CC and thus can get stuck blocking and taken out right there without landing anything?

Twitch, Vayne, and Corki deal true damage. Not a lot but you can play any one of them and if you are on the blue side of the map you can try convincing the jungler to give you red which does let you deal true damage OR you can buy the Elder Lizard item purely for the true damage. Aside from that anyone can buy Blade of the Ruined King which will deal damage based on health.

He doesn't have an invincible laning phase because he has two clear weakeness in lane. He can't poke you from the bush because then he would be too far out of position to block and once he Q's he has to walk at least a 100 units to his support before being able to buff and block which leaves you an opening to immeditaly rush the marksman with offensive spells that far outreach the activation of Stand Behind me. Ontop of that it's massively easy to bait the shield up. He's going to block it at any opportunity so you can just kite it afterwards which is a skill that many marksman are capable of doing and even moreso when they have supports that boost movement speed.

He can only block in ONE direction.

He can only land the stun when his marksman and him are in position. He has to be infront or next to him waiting to block where upon the COUNTERATTACK will leave you slowed and you'll get stunned. For a proper counterattack to work you'd have to be out of position to begin with.

Braum's initiation is very weak. It has a long channel and a very small field for a knockup with a thin divider for a slow which is massively inferior to the slows and knockups of other supports who initiate team fights. Again. Only if you are able to hit a person out of position who was trying to poke only for you to block it and hit them with the slow are you going to lead a charge in a fight you will win.

And guess what? The more melee you have the more useless he is! His shield is quite worthless when the team is comprised of assassins and bruisers.

There is no need to spend all that gold on countering Braum. Because he's just a tank. You don't focus him. Get a support with great utility and AOEs and a team that knows how to dodge a single target skill shot and you can take him down all day long.

I know Braum is new but you shouldn't be this ignorant to how to deal with him at this point.