Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
The stats provided here underscore several important Elise versus Braum matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Braum’s ratio of NaN, showing that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Braum. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Elise normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Braum. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Braum, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes an ok counter for Braum.
While Elise does have a higher winrate than Braum, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Elise into Braumas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Braum matchups, Elise is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Elise is a decent counter to Braum. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Elise against Braum.
If you would like to truly master Elise to counter Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Braum. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Elise versus Braum build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Braum than with most other typical builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing against Braum with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Braum as Elise, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Elise vs Braum counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Braum as Elise are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.