Rammus vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Rammus
based on 952 Rammus vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Gangplank
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 Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Rammus vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Rammus in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Rammus against Gangplank matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gangplank. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rammus normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Gangplank. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rammus and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Rammus or Gangplank?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rammus usually wins when taking on Gangplank, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a good counter to Gangplank.
While Rammus does have a higher win rate than Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Rammus also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Rammus into Gangplank.
Additionally, Rammus has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Gangplank matchups, Rammus is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rammus is a decent counter for Gangplank. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Gangplank.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rammus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to counter Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus typically gets a lot less CS compared to Gangplank. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Rammus versus Gangplank build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Gangplank than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when countering Gangplank with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Gangplank as Rammus, Rammus players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Rammus vs Gangplank counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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