Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Braum vs. Diana matchup stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Diana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Braum normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Diana. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Braum usually wins when trying to fight Diana, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Braum makes a great counter for Diana.
While Braum does have a much higher win rate compared to Diana, when facing one another, Braum also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Braum into Diana.
Moreover, Braum also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Braum vs Diana matchups, Braum is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Braum is a great counter for Diana. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Braum against Diana.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Braum to counter Diana during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Diana. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Braum versus Diana build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Braum incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Diana than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Braum had an average win rate of 54.1% battling Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Diana as Braum, Braum players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Braum vs Diana matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.1% win rate overall.
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