Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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 on this page underscore several vital K'Sante versus Rammus counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus..
K'Sante typically has a similar longest killing spree as their enemy does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Rammus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Rammus, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Rammus.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Rammus, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Rammusas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
K'Sante is a trash counter for Rammus. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Rammus.
To truly master K'Sante in order 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 suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually accumulates much more CS relative to Rammus. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your K'Sante versus Rammus build consist of Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better vs. Rammus than with most other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.5% battling Rammus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Rammus as K'Sante, K'Sante players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Rammus face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
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