braum, beaten into supportism

Parmupaevitus·8/27/2016, 5:54:33 PM·2 votes·867 views

why bruteforce champions into fixed roles. Could someone explain to me how its a good idea to 100% bruteforce a champion with scaling ratios for only support play. I see this in many riots champion designs but braum has been especially brute forced into being played as a support. He literally needs to buy 9 items to be a solo laner just because his damage scaling has been intentionally distributed into being unbuildable. What I mean by it , is that his passive takes 2.5% of his max hp - so the inner nerd is going, aight so I go some hp damage items then right.....wrong his w scales with mr and armor....aaaaand his ult scales with ap ...because you know you are going to be building shittons of ap on a champion whose passive is designed around hitting your opponent 4 times and on top of it building hp and armor/mr. It basically looks like riot wants you to pick braum and rush sightstone+zzrot and if you intend of engineering anything new on him then fuck you. How to kill creativity, bruteforce the meta, don't let the game evolve, make the game evolve. Because everybody loves to see yasuo in 80% of their normal games. I remember when people said this game has so much variety....bullshit riot has its faviorite 20 champions it balances the game around and shits out another one every 1 -2 months to have more skins to sell and then most likely forgets it right after. I mean you have people running into botlane playing velkoz/brand/pick your midlaner of the week as support and its fine, but somehow it makes sense to make some kits flexible and others not. I just don't get the logic behind making something intentionally unbuildable, how is it acceptable for irelia to be overpowered every other month but braum doesn't even get a chance.

18 Comments

Calabok8/27/2016, 5:56:11 PM7 votes

he was created to be support. so support he is.

DraygenBiscuit8/27/2016, 5:56:13 PM6 votes

Braum is a nice guy with a shield... He is happiest protecting his friends! Stand behind Braum he says.. But how can one stand behind Braum when Braum is alone in top. Soloing makes Braum sad. Play Braums support, make Braum happy.

warpenguin5558/27/2016, 5:59:04 PM5 votes

Braum was made to be a support. He has NEVER had success as a solo laner because that is not what his intended role was

NahDogSolRahn8/27/2016, 6:27:29 PM2 votes

Leona, Blitz, Alistar or Naut would have been better to ask about, all of them are Tank primaries shoved into the bot lane for one reason or another.

ThePartyLeader8/27/2016, 6:55:30 PM2 votes

How come Master Yi doesn't have hard cc on his kit. They brute force him out of the support role by not giving him some decent hard cc.

Calabok8/27/2016, 7:26:42 PM1 votes

i'm not wrong. He was created to be support. Just like Goat girl and Thresh

420 grams8/27/2016, 7:51:13 PM1 votes

Black cleaver, Titanic hydra, frozen mallet, dead man's plate, merc treads. Murder everyone.

Wind Whistler9/3/2016, 5:33:30 PM1 votes

You've never seen jungle Braum? I've seen it about two times, I think, and the first time I saw it the guy got RIDICULOUSLY fed, to the point where he could 1v3 people. Not to mention he killed me in about two seconds, and I had a relatively tanky build. The guy was a nice guy, though, and I think it was just supposed to be a fun pick, nothing too serious. The second time, the guy stated that he was gonna try jungle Braum, which made it sound like he had never done it before, which he most likely hadn't. To his surprise, he ended up doing really good, although it wasn't quite as good as the first guy.

In short, Braum CAN go other lanes, or at least just jungle.