Gragas vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Gragas
based on 867 Gragas vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Braum
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some influential Gragas versus Braum counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Braum’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Braum. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Gragas typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Braum. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Braum
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Who is Better, Gragas or Braum?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when playing against Braum, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a bad counter for Braum.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate compared to Braum, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gragas into Braum.
Furthermore, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas 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 teamfights.
Gragas is a trash counter for Braum. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually accumulates much more CS compared to Braum. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need 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 need a lot of 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 Gragas versus Braum build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Braum than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 47.5% when countering Braum with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Braum as Gragas, Gragas players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Gragas vs Braum LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Braum as Gragas are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.