League of Legends offers a wide variety of Champion. Even as a support you have the agony of choice. One interesting champion in League is Braum. In this beginners guide we will explain the champion, his abilities and recommended items and runes for you.
At the moment there are more than 160 champions in League of Legends. And every single one of them has unique abilities, skills and play styles. One of the most friendly and overall wholesome characters is Braum. The pumped giant hails from Freljord and is mostly played on the support position.
In this guide we will tell you everything you need to know about the champion, his abilities and play style. A Braum, played to his maximum effectiveness is a real menace on the bot lane and carry the whole game.
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League of Legends-Champion Braum: Abilities
To be a successful Braum, you have to know his abilities and how to use them. So here are Braum's basic abilities:
- Passive: Concussive Blows - Braum's auto attacks and his Q-Abilitiy are marking enemies with stacks. You can increase this stacks with further auto attacks up to 4 times. When stacked fully it stuns your opponent for a short duration of time.
- Q: Winter's Bite -Braum throws a block of ice in a straight line. Hitting a target will deal damage and slow it. You can stack your passive with a Q hit, as well.
- W: Stand Behind Me - Braum jumps over a short distance to your chosen ally. This can be one of your minions or allied champions. The jump will also increase your allie's Armor and Magic Resist.
- E: Unbreakable - Braum builds up his shield and blocks all incoming projectile-damage. The first projectile gets neglected completely.
- R: Glacial Fissure - Braum rams his shield in the ground and creates a massive explosion in a crack like form, in a straight line. (imagine the squirrel from ice Age XD ). Hitting an opponent, it will throw him into the air for a short duration of time.
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Recommended Items and Runes for Braum
One thing is certain in League of Legends, Braum is a Tank. So you should build him as one. Look out for tank support items, these will come in handy for your future tasks in the game. Especially items, which increase your stats AND can help your allies, are essential.
Ur first goal should be the gathering of enough gold to get items like Knight's Vow or Locket of the Iron Solari. So, the starting item has to be Relic Shield, it's the only way for supports to generate enough money. It also increases your tankyness and lets you share minions.
Pro-tip: Try to kill a minion with your Relic Shield to gain a free angle and use your Q. This way you can sometimes create nice openings or engages.
Other recommended Items for Braum are:
- Zeke's Convergence - Gives your allies additional Damage and offers additional ability damage for yourself.
- Locket of the Iron Solari - Offers a shield for allies around you and increases your defense resistances.
- Redemption - Offers a healing area in a circle like form for your allies. Damages opponents and can be used over a fairly long distance as well.
But what about the runes you might ask. Well that's pretty easy to answer, just go for the Resolve-Tree. This tree will further increase your defensive stats and helps you during fights. Out of the Resolve-Tree we would recommend:
- Guardian - Will give you and an ally a shield, if you're close enough to each other and get damaged.
- Font of Life - Your Crowd-Control abilities will mark the hit opponent, attacks by your allies onto the opponent will heal them.
- Unflinching - Will increase your tenacity and your resistance to slowing, if you get hit by crowd-control abilities.
These are just general recommendations. Please remember to always choose your runes from game to game. Take a look at your team's combo and the enemy one, and then decide. The same goes for the item recommendations.
Braum - Play Style
Braum is a champion that wants to control the lane, and the tempo on it. So you should aim for a play style in which you try to cover your allies and engage at the same time. It sounds harder than it will be, trust me. Your big advantage in nearly every bot lane matchup will be your massive amounts of cc.
Especially against enchantment supports, you can get into the leading position relatively quickly. Try to play aggressive but don't go too far.
Your basic attacks are your strength, since you mark enemies and slow them. Try to combine your basic attacks and your Q-Winter's Bite ability to stun your enemies.
Winter's Bite, your Q-Abilitiy is your best tool to mark enemies and slow them down. Use it for engages or disengages, a single slow can be a deciding factor if you get a kill or not.
Stand Behind Me, your W-Ability lets you jump to a allied champion or minion. It will give them additional Magic Resistance and Armor. With this ability you can look for special angles to engage, or protect your ADC from incoming projectiles with your E after the jump.
Unbreakable, your E-Abilitiy is a life-saving tool, that blocks all incoming projectiles and lowers their damage. Use your shield to protect your allies and yourself. It's a nice tool while in teamfights as well.
Glacial Fissure, your ultimate ability is powerful tool to control fights. Engages are pretty easy with your ult, since it stuns and slows enemies over a huge distance. It can be used for disengages as well.
Tips and Tricks for Braum
And last but not least, here are some general advises for your next Braum matches:
- Your W-Abilitiy, Stand Behind Me, to help and protect your allies in dangerous situations or to cover your engages. It can be used to jump to minions as well, so you can lower the distance to your enemies for an engage / or for a disengage. Mobility is always useful.
- Your Shield will be a major toll throughout the game, combine it with your jump to protect allies efficiently or to cover your engages.
- Use the slow of your Q-Abilitsy, Winter's Bite, to slow enemies. Very useful in catch and team fight combos. And since everybody can stack your marks, it will be pretty easy to find the kills.
- Use your ultimate ability, Glacial Fissure, to catch enemies or break up their engages. It's a nice tool for teamfights and can be used to further control enemy movement and positioning. Once in front the lane is yours to take.
So, there you have it. A quick beginners guide for Braum. He's an absolute unit on the bot lane and might be on of the most underrated supports in the game. He is useful is most ingame scenarios and can dictate the pace of an entire game, once he's in front. Try to combine Braum with an ADC with a higher attack speed, to easily stack up Braum's passive.