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Ability Order
Concussive Blows (PASSIVE)
Braum Passive Ability
Introduction
Since season 3 I've been playing alot of support, especially Lulu & Thresh.
When I heard about

Since his release I've been a big fan of

The main reason I am making this guide is because I want to share my knowledge about this champion since i've played

If you know any info about

Here are a few pros/cons about
Braum and as you can see, the pros heavely outweight the cons, so
Braum's OP.


+Pros
- Insane multi-target CC.
- Good tank stats which he can share.
- Good engage & disengage.
- Very strong peel for the squishies in the team.
- Has a mustache.
-Cons
- Not the greatest laner and can be abused. Up to platinum
Braum will most likely not get abused though.
- You're the person thats supposed to soak up alot of damage, so if Braum falls behind early he can be weak later in the game.
- Like nearly any other support, your team has to do well to be able to win, Braum can't really solo carry.
Braum is really strong early/late game but since tank items (wich
Braum builds) are quite expensive it takes a while to be able to tank all that damage, so thats why
Braum is a bit weaker mid-game.

As a support you're always laning against an ADC, and ADC's (most of them atleast,




A few patches ago





For glyphs there are alot of options. I prefer to run










These ones are pretty straight forward. You dont need any Ability power, Attack damage or Crit, so



Some people might argue that






Yet again, I dont really know how to insert the big picture of the whole mastery page, but we I'll try to make this part of the guide as clear as possible. Just take a look at the mastery page on top of the page.
As a support I always run 0-9-21 masteries, the 21 points in utility help you out SO MUCH.
The 9 in defence are just a luxuary, they just help you with tanking minions for a while if you want to freeze the lane and trading with you lane opponent ofcourse.
In the next part I'll show a few masteries wich I find to be the best.
This mastery helps out quite a bit in lane, it will give you a
Total Biscuit of Rejuvenation instead of a
Health Potion and the cookie regens the normal amount of health that a
Health Potion would regen but it also regens 20 mana.
&
will give you alot of gold income in the laning phase,
Greed
will just increase your general gold income &
Scavenger
will grand you 1 gold everytime an ally kills a nearby lane minion.
Wealth
will give you 40 extra starting gold on top of what you normally start with, this will grand you an extra potion wich in my opinion is really strong. You can also purchase 2 potions & a
Stealth Ward if you're planning to do an invade.

Inspiration, I love this mastery because it gives you alot of experience if you fall behind, wich I think is really important on
Braum, once you fall behind its quite hard to come back.
As a support I always run 0-9-21 masteries, the 21 points in utility help you out SO MUCH.
The 9 in defence are just a luxuary, they just help you with tanking minions for a while if you want to freeze the lane and trading with you lane opponent ofcourse.
In the next part I'll show a few masteries wich I find to be the best.















I think Riot did a great job explaining

Lets start with the abilities.
Passive -
Concussive Blows
In my opinion this is one of the strongest passives in the game. It is so insanely strong that


The stacks can be applies by your auto attacks, your Q (


This is why




Q -
Winter's Bite




This ability is really good for chasing & kiting. In teamfights try and hit



Max

W -
Stand Behind Me
This ability has insanely good synergy with his E, Unbreakble.
When



This skill has good synergy with his E,

If there is an enemy in a specific radius of the targeted ally or allied minion he will jump inbetween the the target and the enemy. This is great because then you're able to use Unbrekable to block the incoming damage that is targeted at your ally.
Max

E -
Unbreakable
This is


Well, I just explained how


When









Max

R -
Glacial Fissure
This is a great ultimate, it is good for engaging but in my opnion its the best for disengaging.
When

The ult is pretty straight forward. There are a few flaws in this ultimate though.
First of all, ealy game it has a very long cooldown, up to 121 seconds if I remember correctly. In competetive play this doesnt really matter because there isnt alot of fighting, but in my ELO people are fighting 24/7, so its quite usefull to have your ultimate up during all these engages but thats just not the case. The second this is that it takes quite alot of time to reach people with the knock-up if they are not standing next to you (it instantly knocks all people up in a small circle around you). So if i play with a

Get a point in

Items
The next chapter is about itemization, but in my opinion there is not that much to talk about.
Since you're playing support, you always build a sighstone and since you're melee, I prefer to build the Face of the Mountain for the execute on minions + its just an insanely strong item.
Lets just start from the beginning of the game.
Start




When you spawn you have about 515 gold, with that you want to buy a







First Back




I wasnt really able to divide these items in your first/second back, since they're all really really strong. Your first




Also, be sure to swap to a


After laning phase




You want to be leaving the lane with upgraded Boots (I'll talk about that later) and your Face of the Mountain. Keep your



From here on becomes situational, look at your enemies and dicide what you want to build.
Tank Items


The

It got hit in the 4.10 patch but it's still a very strong item, build thuis against a full/ nearly full AD team. It gives a nice AOE slow, but



Just an overall great item on





The [Banshee's Veil] is the best Magic resist item on


Not only does it give great Magic resist and Health it also gives you that spell shield every 25 second out of combat. Thats especially great because Braum already has 1 spell shield with his



The


The mana isnt really needed because

The only problem I have with full Armour items (without Health) is that youre the tank of the whole team, so you actually have to tank their whole team, and 90% of the time a team had 1-2 AP champions so they will still do alot of damage to you.
Buy this against fed attack-speed reliant carries like





I'ts the same story with the








The



This item got nerfed in patch 4.10 and now its costs quite a bit more.
Nowadays its only worth buying the



The Zeke's Herald is quite an un-populair item. In patch 4.10 lifesteal on items got nerfed but Zeke's herald didnt get hit. It grands quite a bit of nice Cooldown reduction & Health and it gives the allies around you 20 AD & 10% lifesteal. I dont really suggest building this unless you're running a team comp with 3 ADC's or something similair.
Boots
There are a options for boots upgrades as


Mobility Boots
This upgrade has always been good on supports, your warding becomes more easy and you can roam mid alot. If I see my mid-laner is having quite alot of trouble and the enemy mid-laner is pushing quite alot, I purchase these to roam between bot and mid quicker. Theyre quite cheap aswell.

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
This is a good boots upgrade for


Mercury's Treads
Great buy on



Enchantments



Here are a few lanes
Braum goes well with and where
Braum struggles with.
The difficulty of the lane matchup can be seen by the colour of the names;
Green = easy Orange = even Red = hard
Alistar is a rare support. I've only played against him 2 or 3 times but its a pretty easy lane. He wont touch you and you wont touch him. You both are "peel" supports so you're not ment to engage. Just be careful for a flash
Pulverize +
Headbutt combo because it can give you a hard time if you get knocked back under his turret.
Annie is not really populair anymore nowadays but this match-up shoudl not be a problem for
Braum. If
Annie tries to stun your ADC with her Q then you can interupt it with a quick
Stand Behind Me +
Unbreakable. When she hits level 6
Summon: Tibbers can do quite alot of damage and its not blockable, just be careful for that strong ultimate.
Blitzcrank will always be an annoying and frustrating support to play against. Your
Unbreakable does actually block the damage his
Rocket Grab does but it does not block CC so you'll get pulled. Just stay in the back, dont get pulled. Though once his pull is down he loses all his pressure so you can go aggresive and maybe land a
Winter's Bite.
Too much mustache. You'll have a bigger mustache though since you've read this awesome
Braum guide!
I've seen quite alot of
Gragas play the last couple of months, and he actually is a decent support. He has a displacement, knock-up and quite decent harass in lane, though, you outclass him by alot. First of all, you can block his Ultimate,
Explosive Cask with a well times
Unbreakable wich really makes
Gragas a useless support. He will still be very tanky and will probably be able to out damage you so be sure to pick the right fights.
Janna her popularity has grown once again in patch 4.10 with the addition of the new support item
Ardent Censer. This item grands attack speed to people that get shielded or healed, wich
Janna is really good at. The match-up itself is quite easy, but can be hard.
Janna has alot of disengage and peel for her ADC wich can be hard to deal with as
Braum, but once you eventually get a good stun of on her she will for sure be dead because she is one of the squishiest champions (together with
Sona) in the game.
Karma is one of those really annoying strong early-game champions that you just dont want to face in the laning phase. She gets her ultimate (
Mantra) at level 1 and this ability empowers all het other abilities. If she wishes to use
Mantra on her Q
Inner Flame it can deal ALOT of damage early game. Try and block these attacks with your
Unbreakable and you will deny alot of damage. She doesnt really have an escape so once you hit your
Winter's Bite you'll most likely be able to chase and stun her.
Karma is just a decently hard lane.
Leona and
Braum are similar and different in a few ways. they both have alot of tankyness and stuns, but
Leona has more engage and
Braum has more disengage and peel. The match-up against
Leona is not really hard, altough her level 2 is insanely strong and since
Braum his level 2 is not because you'll most likely have
Winter's Bite and
Unbreakable you should be careful. You can interupt
Leona her combo of
Zenith Blade into
Shield of Daybreak by having really quick reactions. Since
Braum his unbreakable forces all CC to be hit on him, and
Leona her
Zenith Blade has a short root effect, you can interrupt it. Just be prepared in lane and when you see her go for a combo use
Stand Behind Me and
Unbreakable on your adc and you'll force her to engage on you. When she use
Solar Flare from a distance, directly do the same combo and shield your ADC from all the damage.
Morgana is a real pain in the mustache to play against as
Braum. Your only reliable CC with
Concussive Blows is really easy to predict so
Morgana can just use her
Black Shield on whoever has 3 stack of
Concussive Blows on him. She also has alot of reliable roots and stuns wich are really easy to hit. Just play save and shield your ADC once he gets rooted. Late-game she can only
Black Shield one person but most of the time there are multiple priority targets so you'll be able to stun someone else.
Nami has a strong early game, but you can kind of shut her down. Her
Aqua Prisons are not projectiles so you'll just have to juke those and she also out sustains you with her
Ebb and Flow so they will most likely have higher health if they decide to start an engage. There is a silver lining though. Her ultimate,
Tidal Wave, can be totally denied with your
Unbreakable. If you manage to do this your most likely able to win the engage and come out on top. Just pay close attention to what
Nami is up to since
Tidal Wave has an obvious cast animation.
Sona is kind of the combination on
Janna and
Nami.
Sona has great poke, sustain and a great AoE stun with her
Crescendo, so ye, its a hard lane. She will outsustian and outpoke you, but once again, if you catch up to her with your
Winter's Bite you have great change at killing her. You can block her ultimate with a well timed
Unbreakable so try and do that because otherwise you will most likely lose the engagement. Quite a hard lane.
There we go, we arrived at the Chain Warden. A well played
Thresh is still better than
Braum in my opinion, he is just insanely strong. His
Death Sentence gives him alot of zone-controll and its not blockable with your
Unbreakable. Once he levels up
Flay he gets alot more damage on his auto-attacks so he can start harassing you aswell. In a straight up fight you will probably out-damage him and win the engage, especially if you land a stun on their ADC with
Concussive Blows. Just a really hard lane match-up for
Braum if
Thresh is played to his highest potential.
Zyra is also one of the harder lanes for
Braum. Her harass is insanely high if
Zyra plays aggresive and you wont be able to block anything (not even het
Grasping Roots) since only her ultimate
Stranglethorns counts as a projectile (if you face towards the centre of the ultimate you'll block the damage). Just really stay in the back and only if you ADC gets caught jump in for the resque, other then that, this match-up just sucks.
Good ADC's with
All ADC's mash quite good with
Braum but there are a few that really go well paired with the mustache man.
Graves goes really well with
Braum. You can hit a target with
Winter's Bite and
Graves can dash in with
Quickdraw and then quickly apply 3 more stacks of
Concussive Blows with the attack speed buffs he get after using
Quickdraw. Once the target gets stunned he can unleash a great
Buckshot while hitting the enemy with all 3 shots, just a great combo with
Braum.
Once again in patch 4.10
Lucian is just as dominant as he was before. Because of the
Bloodthirster nerf his
Piercing Light wont do as much damage as it did before, so his lane dominance will be reduced. He still is the strongest ADC out there. He can apply
Concussive Blows quickly with his
Lightslinger passive and his overall damage is just outrages. Best ADC to pair with
Braum, but this counts for any support.
Twitch is still a very strong pick even after his nerfs in 4.10. He can quickly apply
Concussive Blows when he pops out of stealth and deal alot of burst damage. Great pick paired with
Braum
I'm not a great fan of
Ezreal, I think is damage his quite low late game, he has that great escape though. People argue that Ezreal is a very strong pick together in a lane with
Braum since his long range
Mystic Shot applies on-hit effects such as
Concussive Blows. I just dont like
Ezreal as an overall pick, but he is decent paired with
Braum.


Support matchups
The difficulty of the lane matchup can be seen by the colour of the names;
Green = easy Orange = even Red = hard
Alistar



Annie






Blitzcrank




Braum
Too much mustache. You'll have a bigger mustache though since you've read this awesome

Gragas
I've seen quite alot of




Janna
Janna her popularity has grown once again in patch 4.10 with the addition of the new support item





Karma







Leona

















Morgana







Nami







Sona







Thresh
There we go, we arrived at the Chain Warden. A well played








Zyra





Good ADC's with
Braum
All ADC's mash quite good with

Graves









Lucian
Once again in patch 4.10






Twitch



Ezreal
I'm not a great fan of






Laning phase











Mid-game
Once the laning phase is over you will probably end up having your face of the mountain,












Late-game
This is where








Here are just a few tips in general on supporting:
On your first back, always try to get a
Stealth Ward or 2 if you dont have your
Sightstone yet. In the laning phase vision is importent to protect you and your ADC from the enemy jungler.
This and warding is your main goal. This is pretty easy to do as
Braum. Use your
Stand Behind Me and
Unbreakable to block ton of damage for your teammates. If you feel there is nothing else you can do, feel free to use your
Glacial Fissure to protect your allies.
Blue side: On the blue side your the one next to the "tri-brush". As a support you should be the one that keeps vision over this brush since this is a very populair ganking path for junglers. I see alot of support only warding the little brush in the river but why would a jungler gank trough that path if they can come from behind. Only ward the river brush if you're pushing really hard past the river. Other then that, blue side is my favourite side for bot-lane, the camera angle is just better for hitting skill-shots and dodging them.
Red/Purple side: This side is quite similair to the blue side but the
Stealth Ward controll is a little bit different. There is no "tri-brush" on this side but you're more likely to push part the river bush so you have to ward that one quite often. You dont really have to ward the bush near your outer-turret but if you feel like your getting dived then ward it ofcourse.
Dragon: Dragon is quite and important early-game objective. In patch 4.10 the gold has been inscreased in the early game so its really attrective. try and have your
Sightstone and
Sweeping Lens ready for those fights so you can deny vision and maybe sneak it quickly while the enemy team does not know your on it yet.
Baron Nashor: Baron is a real late-game objective. You want to have the
Oracle's Lens and maybe a
Ruby Sightstone. A
Ruby Sightstone is useful near Baron because your
Stealth Wards will get cleared by the enemy team, and with the
Ruby Sightstone you'll have 1 more
Stealth Ward in comparison to the
Sightstone. There are a few tricks while warding baron, I always try to put 1
Stealth Ward inside the pit, and one outside the pit. Some teams only purchase 1
Sweeping Lens or 1
Vision Ward, so when they swepp/place the ward outside the pit they will only be able to sweep out the one outside the pit, and the other way around. This way you'll always keep sight on Baron.
Vision.
On your first back, always try to get a


Peeling.
This and warding is your main goal. This is pretty easy to do as




Warding.
Blue side: On the blue side your the one next to the "tri-brush". As a support you should be the one that keeps vision over this brush since this is a very populair ganking path for junglers. I see alot of support only warding the little brush in the river but why would a jungler gank trough that path if they can come from behind. Only ward the river brush if you're pushing really hard past the river. Other then that, blue side is my favourite side for bot-lane, the camera angle is just better for hitting skill-shots and dodging them.
Red/Purple side: This side is quite similair to the blue side but the

Dragon: Dragon is quite and important early-game objective. In patch 4.10 the gold has been inscreased in the early game so its really attrective. try and have your


Baron Nashor: Baron is a real late-game objective. You want to have the










This was my first guide on Mobafire and I hope it was understandable ;)
Whenever I find another champion I enjoy as much as
Braum I'll make another guide, but for now, See ya :)
Whenever I find another champion I enjoy as much as


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