Malzahar vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Malzahar
based on 2,306 Malzahar vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Rammus
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Malzahar versus Rammus counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rammus..
Malzahar usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Rammus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Rammus
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Rammus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rammus, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes an ok counter to Rammus.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate than Rammus, when they face off with one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Rammus.
Furthermore, Malzahar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a decent counter for Rammus. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Malzahar against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to counter Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar often gets much more CS compared to Rammus. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Malzahar versus Rammus build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Rammus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 50.0% battling Rammus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Rammus as Malzahar, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Malzahar vs Rammus counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rammus as Malzahar are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.