Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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 shown here show several strategic Kassadin against Rammus counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rammus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kassadin usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rammus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when facing off against Rammus, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Kassadin makes a good counter to Rammus.
While Kassadin does have a higher win rate compared to Rammus, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kassadin into Rammusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kassadin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Rammus matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kassadin is a decent counter to Rammus. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kassadin against Rammus.
To truly master Kassadin to counter Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin on average gets much more CS compared to Rammus. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kassadin versus Rammus build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kassadin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Rammus than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 51.6% when countering Rammus with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Rammus as Kassadin, Kassadin players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Kassadin vs Rammus counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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