Azir vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Azir
based on 805 Azir vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Braum
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Azir versus Braum counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Braum’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Azir typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Braum. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Braum
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Who is Better, Azir or Braum?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when playing against Braum, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes an ok counter to Braum.
While Azir does have a lower winrate than Braum, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Braumas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter for Braum. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir in order to counter Braum during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average racks up much more CS as Braum. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Azir versus Braum build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Braum than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Braum with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Braum as Azir, Azir players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Azir vs Braum matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
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