Rammus vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Rammus
based on 615 Rammus vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Kalista Counter Build
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Early Items
Core Rammus Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Rammus vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Rammus vs. Kalista matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rammus usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rammus and Kalista
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rammus or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rammus usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a great counter for Kalista.
While Rammus does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Rammus into Kalista.
Moreover, Rammus has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Kalista matchups, Rammus is the better champ with a noticably 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 great counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Kalista.
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Additional Information for Rammus Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rammus to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus often racks up a lot less CS compared to Kalista. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, 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 need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rammus versus Kalista build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Kalista than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 53.7% battling Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Kalista 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 we have analyed for Rammus vs Kalista fights, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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