Akali vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Akali
based on 4,000 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
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
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.
Akali vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several significant Akali against Rammus matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rammus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akali typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Rammus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Rammus
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Who is Better, Akali or Rammus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when facing off against Rammus, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a bad counter for Rammus.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Rammus, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Akali into Rammusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. 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 Akali vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter for Rammus. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Rammus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Akali
Additional Information for Akali Players
How We Calculated Our Akali vs Rammus Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali to counter Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average accumulates much more CS as Rammus. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Akali versus Rammus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Rammus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Rammus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Rammus as Akali, Akali players should equip the Fleet Footwork, 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 counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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