>Pineapple' Wrote:Your summonser spells should be flash and exhaust or ghost and exhaust if you're laning.

If you're jungling (I do it now, it's much better than laning) they should be smite+ ghost.

Either way you should be starting with a cloth armor and 5x hp pot (i do 3x if im laning, I usually dont need more). Just last-hit as many creeps as possible and go back to base when you dont have hp pots and are on low health. First item should be Heart of Gold. 2nd item should be Mercury's Treads/Ninja tabi depending on the team (99% of the time you'll get merc treads). Buy some wards if you have a bit of gold left over (2 or 3 should suffice) and ward the bush at the exit of the river (if you're playing 3v3 i have a sadface, even though rammus rapes face there). Keep it warded as long as possible. If you're at bottom ward dragon as well.

Wrapping this up: Your core should always be Heart of gold and Ninja tabi/ merc treads. From then on out you should be buying tank items based on their team composition. Thornmail to counter physical dps carries, banshees veil to counter mages/ crowd control effects, etc.

Against a balanced team I usually go HoG> Merc Treads> Thornmail> Banshee's> Guardian angel/sunfire cape (depends if im dying a lot)> Sunfire/ guardian angel (whichever I didnt get)> Upgrade Heart of gold to randuin's omen (I'll upgrade it earlier usually, the active is too good.)

With rammus you generally want to be very conservative with your mana.

My skill order in lane:
Q>E> E> W> E> W> E> W>E > W> W> W

Obviously I grab R whenever possible but I was too lazy to stick it into the right places of the skill order.

Your general initiation combo should be Q into enemy carry> W > E> R (You can cast E before W, doesn't really matter)

Your objective in team fights is to assure your team kills the enemy carries before anything else, as well as protecting your own carries. You should always be the one initiating team fights because you are the tank. (obviously there's exceptions sometimes)

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Unleashing Wrote:Rammus is perhaps one of the perfect junglers, his initiation skill is good, short CD and easy to use.
At level 3 you're almost guaranteed a first blood if the enemy does not have flash or something along those lines.

Just use ball curl and health pot + cloth armor and then smite the golem.
Also instead of warmog, buy a giant's belt and keep it for a sunfire.
That's just my personal preference tho, never played rammus with warmog.

And NEVER stack thornmail, that's a waste right there, the effect is unique so it's pointless and a waste of 2k gold, rather use that on getting randuin faster or something along those lines.
Same with force of nature, don't stack it.
If possible, NEVER stack items, especially not with unique effects. Also getting banshee veil over FoN as rammus helps with the hp problem he sometimes faces. Sunfire+banshee solves my hp probs atleast.
And rammus isn't really a carry, he is a tank, and the best IMO. If possible give your carries the kills and stick to assists, i had a 47 assist 0 kill rammus game once :f6:
That's not to say that a rammus can't carry a team, but dps wise he can't.
About to go to bed so sorry if some of it is worded horribly.

WillDaSnail Wrote:But the problem is...since I'm literally a tank, I'm expected to be out there and do my thing. I cannot go and jungle; it would tick off my teammates.

Unleashing Wrote:wat.
Being in jungle let's you do exactly your thing in the laning phase, farming and ganking.
When you lane against a team with a jungle rammus this happens to someone from your team: Rammus flash-balls you, slow you, taunt you, oops he had red buff so you're slowed, now you're dead.
And yea merc threads>ninja tabi.
And never underestimate an item like aegis of the legion, it's a great iems for rammus, early MR armor and hp, cheap, buffs your team too.

But ofcourse, never do what bad junglers do, forget to gang.
You should attempt to gang from level 3 and everytime you see the possibility, while focusing on farming also ofcourse.

WillDaSnail Wrote:I will look into jungling sometime. But if I'm the only tank on the team, jungling is off the tables. :\

What's the jungling order? Do I target the normal golems, then the blue and red-buff golems later on?

Unleashing Wrote:Fact: Any character CAN jungle.

KajitiSouls Wrote:Tell me a jungle plan for lvl 1 Anivia that can keep a reasonable pace, and I'm sold. Otherwise, that's a load of BS.

Unleashing Wrote:I said any character can jungle, not any character can jungle where it pays off

Birdie Wrote:I LOVE jungle rammus. Really good at ganking, not so great at dragon though. I'd take flash/smite, being able to powerball>flash>taunt out of a bush makes ganking so easy. Mid/late game rammus' damage doesnt scale so well compared to jungle creap hp. Make sure you are giving red to your carry. You can keep taking blue as it really helps rammus, unless you have an anivia(sp?) or someone similar on your team.

WillDaSnail Wrote:This is the order I go for armors:

Ninja Tabi ---> Warmog Armor (I'm very soft when it comes to HP, and it does show when I'm tanking) ---> Thornmail (I might stack up to 2 Thormails if the other team is heavily composed of physical-based champions, but usually I have at least one on me) --> Force of Nature (I will at least have one of this on me so I won't be soft with magic defense. I stack up to 2 FoNs if the enemy has a medium to heavy mage presence. This option can be subsituted with Banshee's Veil) ---> Sunfire Cape -----> Guardian Angel.

WillDaSnail Wrote:But the problem is...since I'm literally a tank, I'm expected to be out there and do my thing. I cannot go and jungle; it would tick off my teammates.

Rayquaza2233 Wrote:Life Steal/Spell Vamp helps out if you really want to jungle on a squishy, I used to use BT Ashe just for easier jungling.

>Pineapple' Wrote:I hope you're not serious about jungling with ashe. Unless you're just talking about occasionally killing camps on the side when there's nothing happening in the lane.

The only mage that should be jungling should be fiddlesticks, and even then there's much better picks.

But yes, lifesteal does help a lot. I rush wriggle's lantern on Shaco and the lifesteal lets me not have to constantly buy health pots.

>Pineapple' Wrote:Merc treads> Ninja tabi. The only time this is untrue is when their whole team is composed of physical damage dealers. Your primary magic resist item should be banshee's veil. It gives you everything you need to deal with mages. If you still need a lot more mr afterwards, get FoN. It should be 2nd priority in the MR department.

WillDaSnail Wrote:Hm...what about this?

Ninja Tabi (Switched to Mercury Treads a while back) --> Warmog Armor --> Randuin's Omen ---> Banshee's Veil ---> Force of Nature ---> Sunfire Cape/Guardian Angel.