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Runes:

Resolve

Aftershock

Font of Life

Conditioning

Unflinching

Precision

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+6 Armor
+6 Armor

Spells:

Summoner Spells

Challenging Smite

Flash

Items

Starting items

First Recall

Core Items

Full Build Example

Situational Items

Ability Order

Rammus Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

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Synergies

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Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Vayne

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Champion Build Guide

About Rammus, The Armordillo

Abilities

Items

RAMMUS- THE ARMORDILLO
Melee, Tank, Jungler

Role: Tank
Difficulty: Easy
Speciality: Making ADC's go crazy.
Idolized by many, dismissed by some, mystifying to all, the curious being Rammus is an enigma. Protected by a spiked shell, he inspires increasingly disparate theories on his origin wherever he goes—from demigod, to sacred oracle, to a mere beast transformed by magic. Whatever the truth may be, Rammus keeps his own counsel and stops for no one as he roams the Shuriman desert.

Rammus Abilities

PASSIVE

Spiked Shell

✦INNATE: ' basic attacks deal 10 (+ 10% armor) bonus magic damage on-hit, increased to 15 (+ 15% armor) during .

Powerball

✦ switches to his ball state, continually increasing his movement speed up to 150-235% (at levels 1-18). Upon impacting with his enemies, they will be knocked back for an instant and be dealt 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 / 220(+100% of ability power) magic damage. Additionally, targets affected by the impact will be slowed by 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 % for 1 second. lasts for up to 6 seconds.

is a channeled effect and can be interrupted.

Defensive Ball Curl

✦ goes into a defensive formation for 6 seconds, increasing his armor by 40 plus 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100% total armor and magic resistance by 10 plus 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% of ' total resistances. During this time, 's damage is increased by 50% and also applies to enemies that land a basic attack on-hit against .

slows himself by 30% and ' basic attacks extend 's duration by 0.4 seconds, up to a maximum of 4 additional seconds.

Frenzying Taunt

✦ taunts an enemy champion or monster, forcing them to attack for 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8 / 2 seconds. also gains 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% attack speed for the duration of the taunt. The attack speed buff's duration constantly refreshes while ' other abilities are active.

Soaring Slam

✦ leaps to the target location with CC-immunity, impacting the ground upon arrival to deal magic damage to nearby enemies and slow them for 1.5 seconds. The impact deals increased damage at the epicenter if was cast further than 600 units, capped at 1700 units with 50% increased damage.
If was cast during , enemies within the epicenter are also knocked up for 0.75 seconds and are dealt 's damage. will not collide with enemies during the dash, and its channel will be maintained for the dash and end afterwards.

The impact causes 3 aftershocks to burst from the area over 3.5 seconds. Each aftershock deals magic damage to enemies within the area and applies the initial slow, which stacks up to 4 times.

's damage affects structures and is doubled against Turret icon.png turrets.

Summoner Spells

SUMMONER SPELLS
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FLASH: Pretty standard spell to take on most champions and is not exception. It allows you to make "flashy" plays with + combo.

Ghost: Recently I started using a lot of instead of , and I found a lot of success on it, so it definetly can be a choice for in jungle.

SMITE: You are the jungler, so obviously you ALWAYS take smite. As for upgrade, I prefer .

Keystone Choice

AFTERSHOCK:This might be shocking to all of you, haha get it?Cause it's AfterSHOCK!? HAHA? NVM.
Jokes aside, nothing comes close to aftershock as the keystone for our favorite Armordillo. It scales way too good and gives that much needed tankiness in the early game for dives and ganks.
Considering your and , it's obvious why this keystone is MUST TAKE for .

Runes Choice

Font of Life

marks enemy you impair movement of. If your allies attack they heal (5 + 1% of your max health). Obviously this is good for , because it's scaling of your health %, and also because your can mark whole enemy team.

Conditioning

Flat Armor and Magic Resist along with a 5% increase to both. With how much Armor stacks this is quite powerful rune.

Unflinching

gives you slow resist and tenacity when your summoner spells are on CD and extra for 10 secondss when you use them. This rune is obviously good for all jungler's because of , but it's also good for beacuse of his + combo.

Cheap Shot

has lots of impairments and an ult that impairs people for 8 seconds. Since this rune has a 4 second cooldown it is safe to say you are going to be able to proc frequently enough to make this a solid choice.

Zombie Ward

Good on all junglers that go into tree. Helps you with vision and it's really crucial and helpfull.

Relentless Hunter

Allows you to build but also gain the out of combat movement speed that would provide. This rune allows for superior map movement and in some cases grants you the ability to completely neglect wards because you move too fast.

Triumph

Triumph works with either a kill or an assist, and is based on % of lost life. As both and are easy to hit all 5 enemy champions, you get a lot of healing from the 5 assists you get from winning a teamfight.

Legend: Alacrity

is good for boosting you clear speed, and also to put some additional AA when you taunt someone. I prefer using this over

Legend: Tenacity

Even though I'm using more often, in situations when enemies have a lot of CC and you want to build , you should take instead.

Item Choice

Sunfire Aegis is BY FAR best mythic item for , it's Rightous Glory with addition of which allows to deal consisten damage in fights, and do objectives, which Rammus really struggles with.

Thornmail is MUST HAVE item on , because it's passive stacks with your , and because of Grevious Wounds debuff which protects of being outhealed by enemies. Personally, I take in every single match, no matter what enemy composition is.

Plated Steelcaps
This is best boots upgrade for in current meta, because there is huge AD items rework, more of AD assassins/ADC's are being picked. It's best boots choice for at least in preseason. If are you playing versus AP oriented composition you should opt into instead.

Dead Man's Plate is always good item, giving you bonus movement speed for your flanks and also armor which if obviously best stat for . Also it add burst to your All-ins cause of its passive.

Gargoyle Stoneplate is awesome item for after its rework. I preffer buying it after , and even if enemies are full AD. It gives insane tankiness in late game fights and almost impossible for enemies to kill him ever.

Demonic Embrace is just like old , it gives you additional damage, and especially good against tanks that struggles against considering it's %hp damage passive.