Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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 underscore several vital Gragas vs. Rammus matchup stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rammus..
Gragas often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rammus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when trying to fight Rammus, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a poor counter to Rammus.
While Gragas does have a much lower win rate compared to Rammus, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gragas into Rammus.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Gragas vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a terribly counter for Rammus. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Rammus.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Rammus during both the early game 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 above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas on average racks up much more CS as Rammus. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Gragas versus Rammus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Rammus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 45.2% battling Rammus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Rammus as Gragas, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Gragas vs Rammus counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rammus as Gragas are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.