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.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Rammus Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rammus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Rammus perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rammus plays on the same team as Aphelios, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Aphelios does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played together with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Rammus plays with Aphelios on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Aphelios does a poor job of protecting Rammus in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Rammus that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Aphelios is a very typical teammate for Rammus. By locking into the same side as Rammus, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 50.1%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Rammus and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Rammus. That means Rammus players need to be careful when arranging Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Rammus and Aphelios together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Rammus to work well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Rammus and Aphelios synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rammus had an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Rammus players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
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