Zilean vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Zilean
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Zilean vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Braum
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Zilean vs. Braum counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Braum..
Zilean normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Braum. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Braum
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Who is Better, Zilean or Braum?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually loses when facing off against Braum, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes a bad counter to Braum.
While Zilean does have a lower winrate than Braum, when on opposite teams, Zilean also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zilean into Braum.
Furthermore, Zilean has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean 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 team members during team fights.
Zilean is a somewhat poor counter to Braum. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zilean in order to counter Braum during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean often picks up more CS relative to Braum. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Zilean versus Braum build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Braum than with many other common builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Braum with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Braum as Zilean, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Zilean vs Braum matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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