Aphelios vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Aphelios
based on 1,546 Aphelios vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Rammus
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Aphelios versus Rammus matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between these two champions. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus..
Aphelios typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Rammus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Rammus
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Rammus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when trying to fight Rammus, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a poor counter for Rammus.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate than Rammus, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Aphelios into Rammusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Aphelios is a bad counter to Rammus. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Rammus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Aphelios
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios on average gets much more CS compared to Rammus. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Aphelios versus Rammus build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Rammus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Rammus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Rammus as Aphelios, you should equip the Conqueror, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Aphelios vs Rammus fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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