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.
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Braum vs. Orianna matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Orianna..
Braum often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Orianna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Braum usually loses when playing against Orianna, with a 45.1% win rate. Therefore, Braum makes a bad counter to Orianna.
While Braum does have a much lower win rate than Orianna, when on opposite teams, Braum also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Braum into Orianna.
Furthermore, Braum also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Braum vs Orianna matchups, Orianna is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Braum is a bad counter for Orianna. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Braum against Orianna.
If you would like to truly master Braum in order to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum most often gets a lot less CS as Orianna. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Braum versus Orianna build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Knight's Vow, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Braum incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Orianna than with most other common builds. In fact, Braum boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when countering Orianna with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Orianna as Braum, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Braum vs Orianna battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Orianna as Braum are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.