Kalista vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Kalista
based on 615 Kalista vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Rammus Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kalista Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Rammus
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several significant Kalista versus Rammus counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rammus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kalista typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Rammus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kalista and Rammus
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Who is Better, Kalista or Rammus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when playing against Rammus, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a bad counter to Rammus.
While Kalista does have a lower winrate compared to Rammus, when on opposite teams, Kalista also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kalista into Rammusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kalista has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kalista is a bad counter for Rammus. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kalista to counter Rammus during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista on average picks up much more CS relative to Rammus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kalista versus Rammus build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Rammus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 46.3% battling Rammus with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Rammus as Kalista, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Kalista vs Rammus face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.3% winrate overall.
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