Braum vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Braum
based on 1,409 Braum vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Braum vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Braum vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Braum
Tips for Playing as Braum against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Braum vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Braum in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Braum versus Malzahar counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Braum often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Braum and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Braum or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Braum usually wins when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Braum makes a good counter to Malzahar.
While Braum does have a higher win rate than Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Braum also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Braum into Malzahar.
Additionally, Braum has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Braum vs Malzahar matchups, Braum is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Braum is a decent counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Braum against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Braum in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum typically racks up a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Braum versus Malzahar build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Braum included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Malzahar than with many other common builds. In fact, Braum boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when countering Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Malzahar as Braum, Braum players 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 sets players used for Braum vs Malzahar LoL games, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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