Rammus vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Rammus
based on 2,182 Rammus vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Shaco Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Shaco
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 Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Rammus vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Rammus in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Rammus vs. Shaco counter stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shaco..
Rammus often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Shaco. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rammus and Shaco
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rammus or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually fairs equally well when playing against Shaco, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes an ok counter to Shaco.
While Rammus does have a lower win rate than Shaco, when they face off with one another, Rammus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rammus into Shaco.
Moreover, Rammus also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Rammus is a somewhat poor counter to Shaco. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rammus against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rammus to counter Shaco during both the early game 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 presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Shaco. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Rammus versus Shaco build consist of Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Shaco than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 49.7% battling Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Shaco as Rammus, you 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 rune builds we have analyed for Rammus vs Shaco matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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