Rammus vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Rammus
based on 3,012 Rammus vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Rammus vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Rammus against Kai'Sa matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kai'Sa. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Rammus usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kai'Sa. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rammus and Kai'Sa
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Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rammus or Kai'Sa?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rammus usually wins when facing off against Kai'Sa, with a 55.6% win rate. Therefore, Rammus makes a fantastic counter to Kai'Sa.
While Rammus does have a much higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Rammus into Kai'Sa.
Additionally, Rammus has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Kai'Sa matchups, Rammus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rammus is a great counter for Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rammus against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rammus in order to counter Kai'Sa during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Kai'Sa. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Rammus versus Kai'Sa build include Sunfire Aegis, Randuin's Omen, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Kai'Sa than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Rammus had an average winrate of 55.6% battling Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Kai'Sa as Rammus, Rammus players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Rammus vs Kai'Sa counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.6% winrate overall.
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