Braum is one the most broken champions in LoL

Braum is one of the most broken champions atm in LoL despite having been nerfed 3 times in 3 patches and the sad part is half of the community don't even realize it.

Why is he so broken?

Braum can peel your carry or enemy carry in team fights to point that you can't even touch them.

Example:

Let's pretend a Rengar jumps onto a enemy Jinx. The Braum will simply W to jinx giving her +50 armor and magic resist and put's up his shield to reduce about 50% damage from range projectiles, then a exhaust spell (eliminating 50% of rengar's burst damage), followed by Braum's ult that will knock him up for 1.5 seconds, followed by a 2 second stun passive that was proced by the adc, followed by a Q for a 70% slow.

The peel is unreal and Braum is probably the most anti-assassin champion there is. If you don't believe me that he's broken then a 58% ban rate in ranked games should convince you

August 25, 2014

17 Comments • Newest first

maplestorysux

@Aimbek: except that the squishies are behind the tanks if they position correctly...

Reply September 6, 2014
Aimbek

[quote=maplestorysux]You'll just get CC'd and die quickly in teamfights lol[/quote]

You don't play him all in like you would ad/tanky. You'd play him like an AP Assassin, target the squishies and kill them instantly then move onto the tanks

Reply September 6, 2014
maplestorysux

[quote=Aimbek]you want OP? AP Gnar is OP. 100% AP ratio on his mini gnar W, 50% on his ult. full built, i can easily do 2k dmg in less than half a second even on tanks. Not to mention doing 40k champ damage in a ~35 min game[/quote]
You'll just get CC'd and die quickly in teamfights lol

Reply September 5, 2014
Aimbek

you want OP? AP Gnar is OP. 100% AP ratio on his mini gnar W, 50% on his ult. full built, i can easily do 2k dmg in less than half a second even on tanks. Not to mention doing 40k champ damage in a ~35 min game

Reply September 5, 2014 - edited
plsdonotbanme

morgana beats braum any day

Reply August 26, 2014 - edited
xDracius

[quote=maplestorysux]Nami is played frequently in the competitive scene as a support too.[/quote]

That's after everybody else was nerfed, I don't remember people picking her as often when there was still Annie, Zyra, Thresh, even Fiddlesticks (Waay back).
Regardless, it's time supports get some strength anyway, when I started playing the only 'strong' support was Thresh.

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
maplestorysux

[quote=xDracius]They're good picks, but all the recent male supports (So far Thresh and Braum) came out being absurdly strong after people learned how to play them. The recent female supports (Lulu, Nami) not so much.
Not saying they're weak, those guys are just way too strong (Thresh has been slowly nerfed so he's not nearly as dominating now).

Also Taric a while back was capable of becoming unkillable through armor and health stacking, which also granted him the ability to duel anybody and beat them into submission with his gems. Of course that was nerfed.

While nearly all the supports are good, the ones that really stick out to me as a pain are mostly those two. And Leona.[/quote]

Nami is played frequently in the competitive scene as a support too.

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
xDracius

[quote=djmaxaaron]Nami and morgana are pretty good, much better than taric and are on the level of thresh and braum as well[/quote]

They're good picks, but all the recent male supports (So far Thresh and Braum) came out being absurdly strong after people learned how to play them. The recent female supports (Lulu, Nami) not so much.
Not saying they're weak, those guys are just way too strong (Thresh has been slowly nerfed so he's not nearly as dominating now).

Also Taric a while back was capable of becoming unkillable through armor and health stacking, which also granted him the ability to duel anybody and beat them into submission with his gems. Of course that was nerfed.

While nearly all the supports are good, the ones that really stick out to me as a pain are mostly those two. And Leona.

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
djmaxaaron

[quote=xDracius]I think it should be a fact that male supports (Thresh, Braum, Taric) are the best there are.
Taric cause he's outrageously fabulous, and used to be a tank god.

Not too sure on Alistar though...[/quote]

Nami and morgana are pretty good, much better than taric and are on the level of thresh and braum as well

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
Two0ninE

[quote=NameSpoof]Pudge>Barum[/quote]

barum a new champ in dota2?

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
xDracius

I think it should be a fact that male supports (Thresh, Braum, Taric) are the best there are.
Taric cause he's outrageously fabulous, and used to be a tank god.

Not too sure on Alistar though...

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
Mechace117

And I thought fiddlesticks is a bigger problem than Braun (IMO)

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
dopeazn

He's really tanky, and has good cc and peel. But I still think Morgana and Nami are better. Morgana offers high pick potential. She can really snowball a lane. When you land a bind, you just press R and the fight is instantly won. Nami is just a good all around pick with great sustain and poke.

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
NameSpoof

Pudge>Barum

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
healer55

Pick morg and u win easy vs braum

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
JohnnySV1996

I have literally only seen Braum banned like 2 times tbh

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited
zieyr

but teemo is god braum sux

Reply August 25, 2014 - edited