Braum/Strategy

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Champion Spotlight

By David 'Phreak' Turley

Learn to flex your protective muscles and master the art of shielding your friends and stunning your foes in the Braum Champion Spotlight.

Braum's a tanky defender able to deflect both enemy attention and damage away from his teammates. During laning, dish out Concussive Blows to your enemies before letting your marksman trigger your passive's stun, or, when you ally starts taking damage, quickly reposition with Stand Behind Me before using Unbreakable to save them from further harm. As the enemy team starts gathering, smash through their defenses with Glacial Fissure's huge shockwave before slowing fleeing stragglers with Winter's Bite.

Recommended Items

Summoner's Rift
Starting	3
Early
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

Twisted Treeline
Starting
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

Howling Abyss
Starting	3
Essential
Defensive
Situational
Consumables

Tips

Playing As Braum

• Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
• Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
• Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.

Playing Against Braum

• Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
• Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
• Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.

Tricks

Ability Usage

• Concussive Blows is a stacking debuff that can be applied with either basic attacks or Winter's Bite, and is Braum's main crowd control tool.
  • Once the first stack of Concussive Blows has been applied, any allied basic attack will add stacks. Coordinate with your teammates to quickly stun enemies.
  • In teamfights be sure to tag other enemies with Concussive Blows after you've triggered the stun.
  • While there's a cooldown for marking the enemy with Concussive Blows after it has been triggered note that you're hitting that enemy for additional magic damage during the cooldown.
  • The powerful stun from Concussive Blows makes Braum a potent early game threat, especially in well-coordinated ganks or invades.
• Winter's Bite is a linear skill-shot that damages and slows the first enemy hit, as well as applying one stack of Concussive Blows.
  • As Braum's only damaging basic ability, it is wise to level and max this ability first. Doing so will not only increase the damage, but will also lower the cooldown for Winter's Bite, allowing you to stack Concussive Blows more often.
• Stand Behind Me is a single-targeted dash that puts Braum in between his target and the closest enemy champion.
  • Use Stand Behind Me to block skillshots and provide resistances, potentially saving your teammates' lives.
  • When laning Leap to a minion close to your enemy to create an advantageous situation and immediately start stacking Concussive Blows.
  • You can also use Stand Behind Me as an escape, as long as you have allied champions or minions around.
  • Stand Behind Me can also be self-cast to quickly give Braum some extra resistances.
• Unbreakable raises Braum's shield in a target direction, blocking incoming projectiles and reducing their damage.
  • Use Unbreakable along with Stand Behind Me to protect your allies and minimize the damage taken.
  • Braum also gains a movement speed buff and ignores unit collision while using Unbreakable. Use this to reach allies quickly or escape pursuers.
• Glacial Fissure is an area-of-effect skillshot that damages and knocks up enemies around Braum and in the path of the skillshot.
  • Glacial Fissure is a powerful tool that can be used for either initiating or disengaging from a teamfight.
  • Glacial Fissure also leaves behind a slow field, which is especially effective in narrow jungle corridors.

Mastery Usage

Item Usage

Countering

• Be aware of enemy champions and minion positions - Braum can Leap to them and start stacking his Concussive Blows.