Braum vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Braum
based on 906 Braum vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Braum vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Braum vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Braum
Tips for Playing as Braum against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Braum vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Braum in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some important Braum against Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Braum typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Braum and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Braum or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Braum usually loses when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Braum makes a poor counter to Vel'Koz.
While Braum does have a lower winrate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Braum also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Braum into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Braum has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Braum vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Braum is a garbage counter for Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Braum against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Braum to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum on average picks up a lot less CS as Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Braum versus Vel'Koz build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Braum bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Braum boasted an average win rate of 47.6% battling Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Vel'Koz 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. Of all the rune sets players used for Braum vs Vel'Koz fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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