Irelia vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Irelia
based on 1,269 Irelia vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Braum
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Advice to Win Against Braum
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.
Irelia vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Irelia against Braum matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Irelia normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Braum. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Braum
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Who is Better, Irelia or Braum?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually loses when facing off against Braum, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a bad counter for Braum.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate compared to Braum, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Irelia into Braum.
Furthermore, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Irelia is a terribly counter to Braum. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often accumulates much more CS relative to Braum. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Irelia versus Braum build include Experimental Hexplate, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Braum than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 47.1% when playing against Braum with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Braum as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Irelia vs Braum LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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