Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Zoe versus Rammus matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rammus..
Zoe normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Rammus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Rammus, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a poor counter for Rammus.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate than Rammus, when facing one another, Zoe also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Rammus.
Furthermore, Zoe also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a garbage counter to Rammus. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Rammus.
To truly master Zoe to counter Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe usually picks up much more CS compared to Rammus. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zoe versus Rammus build consist of Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Rammus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 46.5% battling Rammus with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Rammus as Zoe, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Zoe vs Rammus fights, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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