Talk:Braum/@comment-25532677-20150812225241/@comment-26619641-20150917084204

Oda is right. A decent tahm kench, zilean (or kayle and kindred, you forgot them in your list) can totally shot down assassins.

Assassins paterns are pretty predictable (they need to get close to their target to kill it) and if you play waiting for them you can have nearly 100% save rate from their attacks. Honestly, most assassins (leblanc, zed, talon, rengar...) will need at least 0.5-1 second to actually burst down a target. Tahm kench devour, zil and kayle ult are all instant. So if you're in range of your carry (and you should be) and you're waiting for the assassin to jump on your carry to use your spell, there's nearly no chance the assassin is going to get his target. The trick is to always be in range of the guy you want to protect, to have your defensive spell on smartcast and have your finger on this spell. At the exact moment they use their gapcloser (talon cuthroat, seeing rengar jump on your carry, zed ult, leblanc distortion...), you use your spell.

The only chance he has is if YOU mess up (like no paying attention, wasting your spell too soon) or he's so fed he can 100-0 any target before your reaction time.