Talk:Braum/@comment-4900941-20140513133531/@comment-24942350-20140514205607

I also find that vayne is a pretty strong pick with braum. Both are fairly weak in laning phase, but like janna vayne, Braum just defends vayne while she farms up. But the other synergy with these two comes from their passives. Once a stack is on them (usually from q) its nearly impossible to get away from the vayne before she procs the passive, once its proc'd, she can reposition herself to condemn you to a wall, throw in the ulti, and the cc is unreal, you may not have any time to react to the combo before u die. That being said, its going to be really hard to do that against any decent support.

Braum does counter a few things, if you have a projectile execute, well have fun buddy, braum wont die, nor will his laner. Leona will be stuck with focusing braum (never a good thing) as her dash wont continue through the shield. With quick reflexes, braum will just jump back to his allies if blitz pulls him, get that perfect nid spear? Sorry but you do no damage, friend.

I havent really found a true counter to braum, as all braum wants to do is save his laner, but what I have found works is peel. Alistars sustain and peel is very nice, plus like braum he can facetank pretty hard. Janna is nice, you probably will never die in this lane even to ganks. Another great one is zyra, though she has fallen off quite a bit, get 2 plants plus q, braum cant protect his laner and he has no way to sustain him, if braum gets off a good passive proc, you can protect your carry with a good ult, and during the knockup if braums shield isnt up, you can even get another snare in there. Nami is OK at this matchup, especially because of her heal, but unfortunatly without getting too close to braum, she cant get a q on the adc, and her ult is useless.

ADCs that counter him, well the very first that comes to mind is vayne. easy dodge any qs and self peel with q and condemn, true damage, can shred him down if he gets too close, and when he is low feel free to farm and zone the enemy carry, because a braum without hp isnt really a braum at all. Tristana might be okay, though i havent seen it, as if braum does stand behind me she can easily just r him away and keep focusing the carry. No carry is truely "countered" by braum, just forced into a passive lane. Trist and vayne though, have the ability to go into a agressive lane, if they so choose.