Aphelios vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Aphelios
based on 1,007 Aphelios vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Braum
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Braum
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
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.
Aphelios vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Aphelios against Braum counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Braum. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Aphelios often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Braum. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Braum
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Braum?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when facing off against Braum, with a 44.1% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a poor counter for Braum.
While Aphelios does have a much lower win rate compared to Braum, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Aphelios into Braumas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Aphelios is a bad counter to Braum. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often picks up much more CS compared to Braum. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Aphelios versus Braum build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Bloodthirster. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Braum than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 44.1% when countering Braum with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Braum as Aphelios, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Aphelios vs Braum counter picks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.1% win rate overall.
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