Rammus vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Rammus
based on 2,830 Rammus vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Varus Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Countering Varus as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Rammus vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Rammus in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Rammus versus Varus counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Varus. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Rammus normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Varus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rammus and Varus
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rammus or Varus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rammus usually wins when facing off against Varus, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a good counter to Varus.
While Rammus does have a higher win rate than Varus, when facing one another, Rammus also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rammus into Varus.
Furthermore, Rammus also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Varus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Rammus is a good counter to Varus. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rammus against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rammus to counter Varus during both the early game 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus often picks up a lot less CS relative to Varus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Rammus versus Varus build consist of Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Varus than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rammus had an average win rate of 52.8% battling Varus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Varus as Rammus, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rammus vs Varus clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Varus as Rammus are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.