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.
The stats shown on this page emphasize several influential Rammus versus Zeri matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zeri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zeri. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Rammus typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zeri. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually fairs equally well when playing against Zeri, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Rammus makes an ok counter to Zeri.
While Rammus does have a higher win rate compared to Zeri, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Rammus into Zeri.
Furthermore, Rammus has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zeri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Zeri matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rammus is a decent counter to Zeri. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rammus against Zeri.
If you would like to truly master Rammus in order to counter Zeri during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus usually accumulates a lot less CS compared to Zeri. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rammus versus Zeri build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Zeri than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rammus had an average winrate of 50.8% battling Zeri with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Zeri as Rammus, Rammus players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Rammus vs Zeri matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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