Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Aatrox versus Braum counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Braum’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Aatrox normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Braum. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aatrox usually loses when trying to fight Braum, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Aatrox makes a bad counter for Braum.
While Aatrox does have a lower win rate than Braum, when they face off with one another, Aatrox also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Aatrox into Braum.
Moreover, Aatrox has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a terribly counter for Braum. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aatrox against Braum.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox often picks up much more CS as Braum. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Aatrox versus Braum build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Braum than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Braum with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Braum as Aatrox, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Aatrox vs Braum matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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