Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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 shown here show several valuable Yasuo against Braum counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Braum’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Yasuo typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Braum. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when playing against Braum, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a bad counter for Braum.
While Yasuo does have a lower winrate than Braum, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Yasuo into Braumas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yasuo has only a small 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter to Braum. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Braum.
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to counter Braum during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo on average gets much more CS as Braum. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Yasuo versus Braum build include Wit's End, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Braum than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average winrate of 48.1% battling Braum with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Braum as Yasuo, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Yasuo vs Braum battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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