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.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several significant Braum vs. Ryze counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Braum normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Braum usually wins when taking on Ryze, with a 53.9% win rate. Therefore, Braum makes a great counter to Ryze.
While Braum does have a higher win rate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Braum also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Braum into Ryze.
Furthermore, Braum has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Braum vs Ryze matchups, Braum is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Braum is a great counter for Ryze. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Braum against Ryze.
If you would like to truly master Braum to counter Ryze 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 above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum most often gets a lot less CS relative to Ryze. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Braum versus Ryze build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Braum included at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Ryze than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Braum had an average win rate of 53.9% when countering Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Ryze 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 builds players used for Braum vs Ryze LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.9% win rate overall.
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