Rammus vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Rammus
based on 4,000 Rammus vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Akali Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Countering Akali as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Akali
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Rammus vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some significant Rammus against Akali matchup stats that may help you explain the differences between these two champions. As an example, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Akali. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rammus typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Akali. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rammus and Akali
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rammus or Akali?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rammus usually wins when facing off against Akali, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a good counter for Akali.
While Rammus does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when facing one another, Rammus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rammus into Akali.
Moreover, Rammus also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Akali matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Rammus is a decent counter for Akali. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rammus against Akali.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rammus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus usually racks up a lot less CS as Akali. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rammus versus Akali build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rammus had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Akali with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Akali as Rammus, Rammus players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Rammus vs Akali matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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