2010-12-30, 01:45 AM
WillDaSnail Wrote:So....since my main champion is Rammus now, anyone care to share their best Rammus strategy?
What I do now - HP permitting - is at early levels, put on Defensive Curl and Taunt any enemies that get a bit too close to the turrets. Later on, when I become more resilient, I start picking off people on 1v1 battles if I can get to them. (I usually do 1v1 against lightly armored targets, as Rammus will have a better chance of killing them and not get himself killed in the process). For full-on tanking (teammates backing me up), I just initiate (Taunt) on a nearby enemy, and do the same routine, and let teammates take the enemy out.
What I do is Barrel Roll (stun/slow) ---> Defensive Curl --> Taunt ---> Ultimate (if its available to cast; I use this to deal additional DPS to enemy) ---> Exhaust (if available), then start bashing away.
Is this an OK strategy? :f6:
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)
SOMEONE PLEASE GET ON SO WE CAN PLAY TOGETHER. I'M HAVING HORRIBLE LUCK WITH MY MATCHMAKING
IGN: Spiegelmann