Rammus vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Rammus
based on 1,167 Rammus vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Alistar
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.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Rammus vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Rammus vs. Alistar counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar..
Rammus usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Alistar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rammus and Alistar
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Who is Better, Rammus or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually wins when trying to fight Alistar, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a great counter to Alistar.
While Rammus does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Rammus into Alistar.
Moreover, Rammus has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Alistar matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Rammus is a great counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rammus against Alistar.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rammus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus usually gets a similar amount of CS as Alistar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rammus versus Alistar build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 53.1% battling Alistar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Alistar as Rammus, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Rammus vs Alistar matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.1% win rate overall.
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