Braum vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Braum
based on 1,571 Braum vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Braum vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Braum vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Braum
Tips for Playing as Braum against Garen
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Braum vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Braum in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Braum vs. Garen matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Braum often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Braum and Garen
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Who is Better, Braum or Garen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Braum usually wins when facing off against Garen, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Braum makes a good counter to Garen.
While Braum does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Braum also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Braum into Garen.
Furthermore, Braum has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Braum vs Garen matchups, Braum is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Braum is a good counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Braum against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Braum to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum often picks up a lot less CS as Garen. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Braum versus Garen build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Braum incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Garen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Braum boasted an average winrate of 52.3% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Garen as Braum, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Braum vs Garen fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Garen as Braum are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.