Talk:Braum/@comment-8025472-20140713212443/@comment-6281696-20140714104945

Mostly relies on your opponent being bad really.. I had to go top yesterday in a normal with him because a duo didn't clearly indicate they wanted bot until the very last second so I didn't have the time to change. Faced a tryndamere, trading is borderline impossible as his damage is weak without his stun and anyone paying attention will flee before getting stunned. He quickly runs out of mana. His clearingspeed is abysmall. All tryndamere had to do was just hit me whenever I came in to last hit, he can run away before getting stunned & I either have to sacrifice a good chunk of health or mana if I actually want to trade.

Basicly each trade was the following either:

A) Tryndamere hits me once or twice & flees long before the stun goes off, winning the trade by a massive margin (either I've wasted a chunk of mana or lost a chunk of health

or

B) Tryndamere doesn't flee in time and we sort of draw equal but since he his regen he basicly won.

And without the help of your turret or minions you won't be able to kill anything, as in the long run pretty much everyone outtrades you especially with a halffinished set of items, unless they're either really bad or you go for a really offensive build.

The only good part was that tryndamere couldn't effectivly dive me thanks to my survivability & CC, he dove me at 6 (me at 5) and we both got away with ~5% HP, and that required me to use exhaust (hadn't bothered to chance my summoners given the odd lane) A capable top should destroy him, especially the tops that have proper combos to poke with (e.g. renektons) as opposed to just the occasional AA.