You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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 highlight several vital Yorick against Braum counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Braum..
Yorick often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Braum. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yorick usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Braum, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes an ok counter to Braum.
While Yorick does have a lower win rate compared to Braum, when on opposite teams, Yorick also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Yorick into Braum.
Additionally, Yorick has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Yorick is a somewhat poor counter to Braum. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Yorick against Braum.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to counter Braum during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick often picks up much more CS as Braum. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Braum build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Yorick bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Braum than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Braum with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Braum as Yorick, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Yorick vs Braum matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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