Boards›Gameplay

How do you play as braum or with braum in bot lane

Ezcru·11/1/2015, 12:52:58 AM·1 votes·2,293 views

I don't really understand his kit. I've never won with a braum as support, with a variety of ADCs, either aggressive or passive.

His shield attack is not only slow and low range, the enemy adc is already turning tail before it hits them so cant really follow up on that. If that's considered a cue to all in, well, a lot of other supports are better for that and have more CC (leona, thresh, blitz).

Because he can't land anything most of the time on the enemies in lane, he just stand there. His profile is huge too so its very easy to get hooked or or poked. If he gets grabbed what does he do, he jumps to his ADC and puts up a shield. He still took damage, the enemy took none, and he blew cooldowns and mana just to escape and not take too much damage.

His ult isn't any better than other supports. In fact considering his weak-ass laning phase where he can neither poke, heal or all-in, his late game is atrocious. Why does he exist in this state if there are supports like nami that poke hard, can all-in and heals...

2 Comments

ModFrom The Cosmos11/1/2015, 1:15:43 AM1 votes

I'm not really sure what you mean by "shield attack," but I'd be happy to give you some insight and pointers. I've been playing since early 2010 and maining support for a majority of that time. I've held two accounts in plat for the past two seasons although I usually don't play ranked. I'm a normals main at heart.

Braum is an interesting support because his kit is straightforward while his playstyle is can be complex. The main purpose of Braum is to defend your allies, mainly the adc from incoming damge. You're going to want to use your W on your ADC while trading in lane and pop your E to shield the auto attacks and projectiles from the enemy ADC and support. This allows you to out trade significantly. His passive can be utilized offensively and defensively. When trading and blocking projectiles as mentioned above, proc your passive on the enemy and move forward with your adc while you're trading. It's important that you're always in front.

This pretty much sums up how to play in lane. Heavy runes and masteries are essential to allow Braum to do what he does. With the page I take with him, I usually have about 56 armor level 1. His ult is also pretty straightforward. It can be used offensively and defensively. It's always good to save it bottom lane for when you get ganked to allow yourself and your ADC to disengage. You can pop your ult while your ADC runs away and you can use your W for and E to catch up to your ADC while running away and provide a shield and defensive stats from the W.

When using offensively, try to use it in a choke point in the jungle to ensure accuracy. The range is quite long on this ultimate, but due to the time it takes to completely cast, it can be very easy to miss the intended target. I tend to be conservative with my ultimates as I always like having the option for the AoE knockup/peel in case my team gets enaged on. It allows is to have the opportunity to turn it around.

Once you play him for about 20 games you'll get the hang of it. It's more about the decision making and playstyle rather than hardcore mechanics with Braum. Always build tanky and always think about how you're going to protect your team and you'll do fine.

Kouga11/1/2015, 1:51:13 AM1 votes

{quoted}

I don't really understand his kit. I've never won with a braum as support, with a variety of ADCs, either aggressive or passive.

I don't claim to be of any particular tier or rank, but I do play Braum quite regularly and I enjoy him so let's see what we can do.

His shield attack is not only slow and low range, the enemy adc is already turning tail before it hits them so cant really follow up on that. If that's considered a cue to all in, well, a lot of other supports are better for that and have more CC (leona, thresh, blitz).

I assume you mean his Q? It is fairly slow, but its decently long range and pretty wide so its not too hard to hit (although it does make it easier for creeps to block it). But the fact that it can cause the enemy to turn and run isn't a bad thing - it can be used as a deterrent. If the enemy engages, or if they look like they're going to engage (their support starts moving forward, or the adc moves outside of the minion waves to angle their skillshots)

It can also be used well with ADCs with either early AS steroids or a way of proc'ing on hits - Lucian for example. And even though its not a displacement like a hook, the fact that its a stun gives you a longer edge; sometimes hooking the wrong champion can put you in a worse spot than before. In fact Braum is someone I like taking against Blitz/Thresh specifically because I don't care if they hook me since I can turn around and start stacking my stun on them.

Because he can't land anything most of the time on the enemies in lane, he just stand there. His profile is huge too so its very easy to get hooked or or poked. If he gets grabbed what does he do, he jumps to his ADC and puts up a shield. He still took damage, the enemy took none, and he blew cooldowns and mana just to escape and not take too much damage.

If your Braum isn't hitting or landing anything and isn't moving then he's playing too passive. In certain match ups he may want to - hang back, try to avoid harassment (which apparently yours wasn't very good at), and then when the enemy engages, Braum counter-engages. His counter-engage is strong. I'll try to Q one and then move towards the other and AA to get my passive going. That way my ADC can either stun the adc to try for a kill/trade, or can stun the support if they need to stop them. I stay between them and my adc and either wall the ADC's damage, or wait and wall the support's CC if its something like morgana trying to snare them.

His ult isn't any better than other supports. In fact considering his weak-ass laning phase where he can neither poke, heal or all-in, his late game is atrocious. Why does he exist in this state if there are supports like nami that poke hard, can all-in and heals...

With Runic shield & sightstone he gets pretty durable in the early game - I also tend to max either his wall to take less damage from whatever he intercepts, allowing him to tank a lot of damage early on.

The key when I play Braum is getting an aggressive ADC and then locking them down whenever they step out of line. Remember that Braum can leap to an ally minion as well, so if they moved past the minion wave Braum can leap near them, AA them in the face and quickly start stacking his stun. Of course, if you and your ADC aren't coordinating, they might not follow you into the engage and you'll be left hanging. But when I play Braum I tend to have pretty strong control over the lane if I can call the shots and have my ADC follow up on my initiations.