Akshan vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Akshan
based on 856 Akshan vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Braum
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Braum
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.
Akshan vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some influential Akshan against Braum matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between these two champions. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Braum. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akshan typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Braum. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Braum
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Who is Better, Akshan or Braum?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when playing against Braum, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes an ok counter to Braum.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate than Braum, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Braum.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Braum matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a decent counter to Braum. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Braum during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically gets much more CS compared to Braum. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akshan versus Braum build consist of Kraken Slayer, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan used at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better versus Braum than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing against Braum with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Braum as Akshan, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akshan vs Braum counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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