Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
The stats shown here feature several important Akshan vs. Rammus matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between this set of champs. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Rammus..
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Typically, they takes less damage than Rammus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Rammus, with a 44.2% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a poor counter to Rammus.
While Akshan does have a much lower winrate than Rammus, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Rammus.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akshan is a bad counter to Rammus. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Rammus.
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically racks up much more CS compared to Rammus. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Rammus build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better versus Rammus than with many other common builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 44.2% battling Rammus with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Rammus as Akshan, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Akshan vs Rammus counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rammus as Akshan are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.