Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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 stat comparisons provided here clarify several important Rengar against Braum matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the two. Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Braum. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Rengar typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Braum. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rengar usually loses when trying to fight Braum, with a 45.0% win rate. Thus, Rengar makes a poor counter to Braum.
While Rengar does have a much lower winrate than Braum, when on opposite teams, Rengar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Rengar into Braumas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Rengar also has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Rengar is a bad counter to Braum. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rengar against Braum.
If you would like to truly master Rengar to counter Braum during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Braum. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Rengar versus Braum build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Rengar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Braum than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rengar had an average win rate of 45.0% battling Braum with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Braum as Rengar, Rengar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Rengar vs Braum face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.0% winrate overall.
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