Akali vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Akali
based on 1,849 Akali vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Rammus
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Rammus
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Akali vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Akali in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Akali versus Rammus matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Rammus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Rammus
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Who is Better, Akali or Rammus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when facing off against Rammus, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a poor counter for Rammus.
While Akali does have a much lower win rate compared to Rammus, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akali into Rammusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champ 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.
Akali is a bad counter to Rammus. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average accumulates much more CS relative to Rammus. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Akali versus Rammus build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Rammus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 45.6% battling Rammus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Rammus as Akali, Akali players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Akali vs Rammus counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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