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.
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Rammus versus Yasuo matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, showing that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yasuo. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Rammus often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Yasuo. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually wins when trying to fight Yasuo, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Rammus makes a great counter to Yasuo.
While Rammus does have a much higher win rate than Yasuo, when facing one another, Rammus also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Rammus into Yasuo.
Additionally, Rammus has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Yasuo 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Rammus is a great counter for Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Yasuo.
To truly master Rammus in order to counter Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Yasuo. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Rammus versus Yasuo build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Yasuo than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 54.2% when countering Yasuo with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Yasuo as Rammus, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rammus vs Yasuo counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.2% win rate overall.
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