Bard vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Bard
based on 1,750 Bard vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Rammus
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Bard against Rammus counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rammus..
Bard often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Rammus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Rammus
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Who is Better, Bard or Rammus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Rammus, with a 54.2% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a great counter for Rammus.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate than Rammus, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Rammusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Rammus matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Bard is a great counter to Rammus. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Rammus. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Bard versus Rammus build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Rammus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 54.2% when playing against Rammus with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Rammus as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Bard vs Rammus clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.2% win rate overall.
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