Braum vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Braum
based on 1,269 Braum vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Braum vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Braum vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Braum
Tips for Playing as Braum against Irelia
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.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Braum vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Braum in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Braum against Irelia counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Braum typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Braum and Irelia
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Who is Better, Braum or Irelia?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Braum usually wins when playing against Irelia, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Braum makes a good counter for Irelia.
While Braum does have a higher winrate compared to Irelia, when on opposite teams, Braum also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Braum into Irelia.
Additionally, Braum has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Braum vs Irelia 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 an above average counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Braum against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Braum to counter Irelia 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum usually accumulates a lot less CS compared to Irelia. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically 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 ideal items to focus on in your Braum versus Irelia build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Braum combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Irelia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Braum had an average win rate of 52.9% when countering Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Irelia as Braum, you should take 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 runes we have analyed for Braum vs Irelia LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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