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.
The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
The stats provided here underscore several critical Rammus against Ekko counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ekko’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ekko. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Rammus normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ekko. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually fairs equally well when playing against Ekko, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Rammus makes an ok counter to Ekko.
While Rammus does have a lower win rate than Ekko, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rammus into Ekko.
Furthermore, Rammus also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ekko. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Ekko matchups, Ekko is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rammus is a somewhat poor counter for Ekko. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rammus against Ekko.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to counter Ekko 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus often gets a lot less CS relative to Ekko. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Rammus versus Ekko build include Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Ekko than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Ekko with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Ekko 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 rune sets players picked for Rammus vs Ekko fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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