Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Rammus against Ahri matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between these two champions. As an example, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ahri..
Rammus usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Ahri. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually wins when trying to fight Ahri, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a good counter for Ahri.
While Rammus does have a higher winrate compared to Ahri, when facing one another, Rammus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rammus into Ahri.
Furthermore, Rammus also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Ahri matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rammus is a decent counter for Ahri. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Ahri.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus to counter Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Ahri. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Rammus versus Ahri build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Ahri than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rammus had an average win rate of 51.8% when playing against Ahri with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Ahri as Rammus, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Rammus vs Ahri face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ahri as Rammus are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.