Katarina vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Katarina
based on 1,575 Katarina vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Braum
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Katarina vs. Braum counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Braum. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Braum
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Who is Better, Katarina or Braum?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Braum, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Braum.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Braum, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Braumas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a bad counter for Braum. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Braum during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically accumulates much more CS as Braum. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Katarina versus Braum build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Braum than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 46.6% battling Braum with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Braum as Katarina, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina vs Braum counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
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