Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Akali versus Braum counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Braum. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akali often has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Braum. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when trying to fight Braum, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a bad counter to Braum.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Braum, when facing one another, Akali also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Braumas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali 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 team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Braum. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Braum.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Braum during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often racks up much more CS as Braum. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Akali versus Braum build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Braum than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 48.8% battling Braum with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Braum as Akali, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akali vs Braum face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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