Original League of Legends (LoL) Thread

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

For my armors I use, I modified it from a Rammus build I got off the internet.

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.

Right now I'm working on being the team carrier, but of course, that's somewhat tough when people gang up on you. 4-way FTW? Lulz.

For taunting, I usually do it when initiating team fights. Sometimes I just do it simply to clear up an annoyance (or take out a target without doing a full-on initiation). And of course, I use taunt when they get too close to my turrets. XD

And of course, I go 1v1 if I see targets of opportunity. Soft targets mostly, such as Ashe. They usually go down if they don't get out in time.

P.S. Rammus can jungle?! wtpux?!