Kog'Maw vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Kog'Maw
based on 373 Kog'Maw vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Braum
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats provided here feature several critical Kog'Maw versus Braum counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Braum. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kog'Maw normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Braum. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Braum
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Braum?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when taking on Braum, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Kog'Maw makes a poor counter for Braum.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower winrate than Braum, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kog'Maw into Braum.
Additionally, Kog'Maw also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kog'Maw is a bad counter for Braum. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kog'Maw against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw in order to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often picks up much more CS compared to Braum. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kog'Maw versus Braum build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Braum than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when countering Braum with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Braum as Kog'Maw, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kog'Maw vs Braum face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Braum as Kog'Maw are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.