How to play Braum — Wild Rift guide, combos & tips
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How to play Braum — Wild Rift guide, combos & tips
Braum, the Heart of the Freljord, is Wild Rift's premier peel-and-setup Tank — a Support who deals almost no damage himself but turns every trade into a potential stun through his passive, Concussive Blows. His identity is built entirely around soaking damage and protecting his team: Unbreakable blocks incoming hits and projectiles, Stand Behind Me repositions him to shield an ally, and Glacial Fissure turns a grouped enemy team into knocked-up, slowed targets for his carries to clean up. He's less about winning lane 1v1 and more about making every other lane and teamfight safer for the people around him.
Strengths
- Best-in-class peel for his ADC — Unbreakable intercepts projectiles and blocks the first frontal hit outright, then cuts all incoming damage by 35% for its duration, single-handedly answering burst combos and dive attempts.
- Passive rewards coordinated aggression: enough autoattacks from Braum and an ally stack Concussive Blows to four marks, stunning the target for over a second and turning short trades into kills.
- Glacial Fissure is a teamfight-defining ultimate that knocks up and slows an entire clustered enemy line, creating a free window for his team to burst down priority targets.
- Scales into a near-unkillable frontline presence with Warmog's Armor and resistance items, letting him engage and re-engage fights that would delete a squishier tank.
Weaknesses
- Deals almost no damage of his own — without allies following up his stacks or his fissure's knock-up, he can't punish or finish anyone by himself.
- Concussive Blows needs melee-range autoattacks to build, so ranged poke Supports like Zyra or Sona can whittle him down before he ever gets close enough to stack a mark.
- Stand Behind Me has a noticeable wind-up before the leap lands, so a well-timed slow, root or peel can strand him mid-jump or stop him from reaching his target at all.
- His entire defensive kit hinges on raising Unbreakable in time — a silence, stun or burst that lands before he can shield removes his best answer to incoming damage.
Combos
- Q → Auto-Attack → E — slow and mark the target with Winter's Bite, land an autoattack to add a passive stack, then raise Unbreakable to block the return hit and eat reduced damage while you close in.
- W → E → Auto-Attack — jump to an endangered ally for the bonus armor and magic resist, face your shield toward the threat to block their hit, then help finish the passive stack together.
- R → Q → team follow-up — crack Glacial Fissure into a grouped enemy team to knock them up and slow them, catch anyone fleeing with Winter's Bite, and let your carries clean up while they're still slowed.
- Stack passive → R — bait a short trade near an ally until Concussive Blows is close to four stacks, then use the ultimate the instant it's ready so the knock-up chains straight into the stun.
Skill order: Q > E > W
Early game
Lead trades with Winter's Bite to slow and mark the enemy laner, then follow with an autoattack to push Concussive Blows toward its stun — pair this with your ADC's damage to threaten a real all-in once the mark count gets close to four. Use Unbreakable to shrug off poke or eat an opponent's biggest hit rather than holding it back defensively, and prioritize keeping your ADC safe and on tempo over chasing kills yourself.
Mid & late game — teamfighting
By the mid-game your role splits between initiating and peeling depending on how the fight starts: lead with Glacial Fissure into a grouped enemy team to knock up and slow their front line, ideally catching a priority carry in the blast, then follow in with Winter's Bite to punish anyone trying to walk away. When you're not the one engaging, hold Stand Behind Me and Unbreakable for whichever ally is being dove or focused, shielding them and buying time for your team to turn the fight around. Stay glued to the frontline near your own damage dealers rather than diving alone — you're the wall your team fights behind, not a solo threat.
Pro tips
- Hold Unbreakable for the enemy's real burst or ultimate rather than popping it on the first poke you see — its value comes from blocking the hit that actually threatens a kill.
- Use Stand Behind Me proactively to reposition onto an ally who's about to get dove, not just reactively after they're already low.
- Call out passive stack counts during extended trades so your team can land the coordinated final autoattack that triggers the stun — it wins fights that would otherwise stay even.