Garen vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Garen
based on 1,571 Garen vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Braum
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here feature several significant Garen vs. Braum counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Braum’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Braum. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Garen usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Braum. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Braum
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Who is Better, Garen or Braum?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when trying to fight Braum, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a poor counter to Braum.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Braum, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Garen into Braum.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Garen vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Garen is a trash counter for Braum. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often picks up much more CS relative to Braum. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Garen versus Braum build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Braum than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Braum with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Braum as Garen, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Garen vs Braum face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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