Alistar vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Alistar
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Alistar vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Rammus
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
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.
Alistar vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Alistar vs. Rammus counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus..
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Rammus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Rammus
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Who is Better, Alistar or Rammus?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when taking on Rammus, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes an ok counter for Rammus.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Rammus, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Rammusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Rammus. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rammus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Rammus build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Rammus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when countering Rammus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Rammus as Alistar, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Alistar vs Rammus counters, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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