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.
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Braum against Kassadin counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kassadin. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Braum normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Kassadin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Braum usually wins when taking on Kassadin, with a 54.6% win rate. Therefore, Braum makes a great counter for Kassadin.
While Braum does have a much higher win rate than Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Braum also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Braum into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Braum has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Braum vs Kassadin 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Braum is a great counter to Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Braum against Kassadin.
If you would like to truly master Braum to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Kassadin. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Braum versus Kassadin build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Braum used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Kassadin than with many other typical builds. In fact, Braum boasted an average win rate of 54.6% battling Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Kassadin as Braum, Braum players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Braum vs Kassadin battles, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kassadin as Braum are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.