Interesting Braum Ideas
Hiya everyone, I'm a Braum main and I just wanted to throw out some ideas I think would be good (Reference - Q Winters Bite, W Stand Behind Me, E Unbreakable, R Glacial Fissure, AA Auto Attack, CD cooldown)
**Being able to cancel E before the end of the ability. ** Blocking with my shield sometimes I'll want to put it down right after I block an ability so I can get it on CD faster rather than waiting 3-4 seconds. This also means I can block damage for my allies and put the shield down to avoid CC afterwards. This happens a lot when I play, I jump to an ally and block dmg for them but then someone throws out CC and there's nothing I can do to get out of the way because my hitbox is so much bigger.
Interesting E CD mechanic Something that might be fun to experiment with is instead of his shield being a normal ability is terms of how its put on CD it could be something like Rumble's new E mechanic or smite CD. Basically lets say you level'd E and now have 3 seconds of active blocking. Well instead of using all of it at once like your able to now, your able to toggle the ability. So since you have 3 seconds of active blocking you can use 1 second of it, toggle it and you'll still have 2 more seconds to use. This would be even better if that 1 second you used was put on CD so it would go on 1/3 of the total E CD for example. Then for any further usage of the E the CD of that time you used would be added onto the CD of the E from before. (Ex. Used 1 second of E. 1 second goes on CD while having 2 seconds of active shielding to use. Use E again for 1 second. < That CD gets added onto whatever the CD for the previous E usage was. After that cast you have 2 seconds of the E unavailable to use because its on CD while still having 1 more second of active to use. Very technical I know and it might be overpowered but it might make one of Braum main strengths stronger.
Tahm Kench and Braum Passive Right now the time it takes from Braum applying a stack of his passive concussive blows to the passive ending is 4 seconds. The way this passive falls off is after 4 seconds all stacks disappear. The way Tahm Kench's passive stacks fall off is 0.5 seconds after 5 of not being hit with an AA or damaging ability. Now before I present my point I'd like to point out Braum's stacks can be applied by either himself or an ally, the Kench can only apply the stacks himself. It might be a nice quality of life change if Braum's stacks decayed (fall off one at a time) like Tahm instead of falling off all at once. This might be a little overpowered because it created more pressure for whoever has the stacks since the total amount of time the targets has stacks would be increased. To counter this, Braum could have his stacks be on the target for 3 seconds instead of 4 and make the stacks decay one after another in 0.5 increments like Tahm.
Ending animation on his W (very minor)Braum has an animation when he initially jumps to his target but doesn't have an animation when the jump ends. It would look a little better is all.
Shorter Cast time on Ult No not shorter cooldown but a shorter time to cast the ability. If he had a shorter cast time on his ult, it would make his engage much stronger/easier. Braum's ult is very telegraphed which makes it very hard to land combos like W and Ult. In lane it can be very difficult to engage unless you take advantage of the enemy's mispositioning with a Q or aa. However you need the help of an ally who also realizes that mistake to effectively engage. In teamfights it's easier to engage but ult opportunities (like a squishy target coming too close to the front line) only appear for so long. Making his ult have a lower cast time means better engage,better outplays (ex. interrupting Tristana jump), and better disengage.
Thank you for your time :D What do you guys think of these ideas?
