Rammus vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Rammus
based on 1,089 Rammus vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Rammus vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Rammus against Ziggs matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs..
Rammus normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rammus and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Rammus or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually loses when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a bad counter for Ziggs.
While Rammus does have a lower winrate compared to Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rammus into Ziggs.
Moreover, Rammus also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Rammus is a somewhat poor counter for Ziggs. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rammus against Ziggs.
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 Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Rammus versus Ziggs build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Ziggs than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Rammus had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Ziggs 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rammus vs Ziggs matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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