Zed vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Zed
based on 2,742 Zed vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Rammus Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zed Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Rammus as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Rammus
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Zed in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several strategic Zed vs. Rammus matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Rammus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Rammus
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Zed or Rammus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Rammus, with a 45.4% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter to Rammus.
While Zed does have a much lower win rate compared to Rammus, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zed into Rammusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zed is a bad counter for Rammus. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Rammus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zed
Additional Information for Zed Players
How We Calculated Our Zed vs Rammus Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Rammus during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets much more CS as Rammus. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zed versus Rammus build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Rammus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 45.4% when countering Rammus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Rammus as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed vs Rammus counters, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rammus as Zed are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu located above.