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.
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Braum versus Leona matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona..
Braum typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Braum usually fairs equally well when taking on Leona, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Braum makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Braum does have a higher win rate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Braum also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Braum into Leona.
Furthermore, Braum also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Braum vs Leona matchups, Braum is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Braum is a decent counter for Leona. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Braum against Leona.
If you would like to truly master Braum to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum often racks up a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Braum versus Leona build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Braum combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Leona than with many other common builds. In fact, Braum boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Leona as Braum, you should use 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 Leona battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Leona as Braum are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.