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Braum is Under Appreciated

Pentapod·2/11/2017, 6:32:23 PM·4 votes·757 views

Hello everyone!

This is my first post on the boards and I hope to get a good response regarding the topic!

With the rise in mage supports this season as well as the auto attack oriented fighting in bot lately, I've started noticing a trend. This rise in mages has made skill shots and abilities much more common allowing for marksmen to be able to freely auto attack for a short period. This brought up a big question for me:

Because of this rise in ranged abilities, skill shots and AA in bot lane, why has Braum seemed to have fallen out of favor?

Braum is a fantastic champion and is known for protecting his teammates from the very things that have become popular in bot lane , aside from say Malzahar. His shield blocks many of the mage abilities in the support role while still mitigating the damage of the opposing marksman. Braum feels very under appreciated at the moment and I am surprised he isn't seen more often since he could be an answer to the mage supports of late.

So I would love to hear your opinions on this topic! Do you guys feel Braum is an under appreciated support currently?

6 Comments

EbonyBladeJ882/11/2017, 7:11:10 PM2 votes

I play Braum and find that because the skillshots and ranged abilities are so quick and plentiful that it can make your E-shield meaningless. The CD for it is oftentimes longer than the CD for their skillshots or ranged abilities, so you more likely than not lose the trades. This forces you to back or risk giving them a kill, and then when the 4-man ganks come along, you're also lacking in disengage (aside from your Ult) so there's another problem. With the way things are right now (As I see it anyway) you have be a "play-it-safe" kind of support or else you just lose.

That's my two bits on it, take it as you will.

SchmidttyGames2/11/2017, 7:13:41 PM1 votes

I like Braum. He just gets crapped on my mage supports.

Looknook2/11/2017, 8:57:06 PM1 votes

I tend to play support alot and I would argue that the reason Braum isn't seen much at the moment more due to meta than anything else. Most tank supports outside of Thresh and Taric are kinda rare. Taric is really only good because he counters Malz, and Thresh has range on his side. The supports that are played a lot are high damage Mage supports with utility. They need to be able to kill things alongside their adc, as well as giving lane pressure to be meta atm. Braum enables his team and adc rather then serving as a replacement for them. I bet if the meta slows down and crit ADC's that need defending come back, so too will Braum.