Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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 stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Annie vs. Rammus counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus..
Annie typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Rammus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Annie usually loses when playing against Rammus, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Annie makes a poor counter to Rammus.
While Annie does have a lower winrate compared to Rammus, when they face off with one another, Annie also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Annie into Rammus.
Furthermore, Annie also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Annie vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Annie is a terribly counter for Rammus. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Annie against Rammus.
To truly master Annie in order to counter Rammus during both the lane 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 should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie on average racks up much more CS relative to Rammus. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Annie versus Rammus build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Rammus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Rammus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Rammus as Annie, Annie players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Annie vs Rammus counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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