Rammus vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Rammus
based on 2,288 Rammus vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Rammus vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Rammus in LoL
The stats shown here feature some influential Rammus versus Katarina counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Katarina. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Rammus typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Katarina. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rammus and Katarina
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Who is Better, Rammus or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rammus usually wins when taking on Katarina, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Rammus makes a good counter for Katarina.
While Rammus does have a higher win rate compared to Katarina, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rammus into Katarina.
Additionally, Rammus has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Katarina 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Rammus is an above average counter for Katarina. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus often gets a lot less CS as Katarina. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Rammus versus Katarina build include Thornmail, Randuin's Omen, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Katarina than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rammus had an average winrate of 52.7% when countering Katarina with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Katarina as Rammus, Rammus players 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 builds players used for Rammus vs Katarina fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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