Katarina vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Katarina
based on 2,288 Katarina vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Rammus
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some significant Katarina versus Rammus counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between this set of champions. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rammus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Rammus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Rammus
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Who is Better, Katarina or Rammus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Rammus, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Rammus.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Rammus, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Rammusas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina 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 teammates during teamfights.
Katarina is a terribly counter for Rammus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually racks up much more CS compared to Rammus. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Katarina versus Rammus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Rammus than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Rammus with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Rammus as Katarina, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina vs Rammus counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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