Rammus vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Rammus
based on 2,742 Rammus vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Zed Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Countering Zed as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Rammus vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Rammus vs. Zed matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Rammus often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zed. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rammus and Zed
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Who is Better, Rammus or Zed?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually wins when facing off against Zed, with a 54.6% win rate. Therefore, Rammus makes a great counter for Zed.
While Rammus does have a much higher winrate compared to Zed, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Rammus into Zed.
Furthermore, Rammus has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Zed 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Rammus is a great counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rammus against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rammus in order to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rammus versus Zed build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Rammus bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 54.6% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Zed as Rammus, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Rammus vs Zed counters, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.6% win rate overall.
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