Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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 stats shown here clarify some strategic Anivia against Braum counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Braum. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Anivia typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Braum. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Anivia usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Braum, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Anivia makes an ok counter for Braum.
While Anivia does have a higher winrate compared to Braum, when they face off with one another, Anivia also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Anivia into Braumas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Anivia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Anivia vs Braum matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a decent counter for Braum. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Anivia against Braum.
If you would like to truly master Anivia in order to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia usually racks up much more CS as Braum. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Anivia versus Braum build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Braum than with most other common item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when countering Braum with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Braum as Anivia, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Anivia vs Braum counters, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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