Rammus: The Armordillo

S'up dudes and dudettes! Good ol' Necroanimus is back again with anouther Champion Review.

This time I cover Rammus, the Armordillo, since he's free this week.

Now, I heard Legends about Rammus as being one of the most douche champions in the league, and I didn't know just how right that was, until I played a game with Rexif as Rammus. It was almost odd playing as a Support when I normally play as an ADC or pure melee character, but, playing as Rammus felt kinda right.

Rammus' Passive is called Spiked Shell, and what this does is convert a percentage of Rammus' armor into attack damage. In game when I looked I don't remember it saying the exact percentage, but something tells me it was 15%, of which is fine by me. At the start of the game I bought Doran's shield, and noticed the small but there change in my attack damage. By time I had nearly rounded my build (Game ended before I could, bots fucking suck y'know) I had an added 90 attack damage from armor alone. I say that's pretty fucking heinous, no? Anywhoo, onto his abilities.

Rammus' Q is my personal favorite, and it's called Powerball. And unlike the normal Powerball, you have better chances at winning on this one. Rammus curls into a ball and rolls his way along the Fields of Justice until either he collides with an enemy (whether it be a monster, minion, or champion) dealing magic damage to enemies he collides with (I've hit three for 1, that's why I say enemies) and slowing them for a short amount of time. Now, this move really interests me in it's movement potential. Okay, Rammus is rather slow moving (Not his fault, I mean, he's a fucking armadillo.) but, Powerball has this thing where if he doesn't collide with anything, he simply speeds up and keeps on a rollin until the duration of Powerball runs out, which for me has meant some pretty good kills/hits when a fucking speeding spiked armordillo hits the enemy, right? right?

Erhem... right.... Rammus's W... right. His W is called Defensive Ball Curl (2long4me) in which throws Rammus to all fours to defend himself. In this state he gains armor and magic resist, and also deals out a set amount of magic damage to attackers, this damage is enhanced depending on how much armor your build allows, 10% of that armor to be exact. Leading this after a successful Powerball strike was a useful combo as enemies were tempted to attack after I bashed into them, especially 2v1's in my time as Rammus, oh boy those were charming ;)

Rammus's E is called Puncturing Taunt. Now, for an Armordillo that doesn't talk, taunting kinda seems... *activate sunglasses* out of his league (YEAHHHHHHHHH). But, it's a thing. This is a single target ability which forces a target to attack Rammus for a set amount of time depending on the ability's level. Interestingly enough, this helps out with a lot of Rammu's abilities. Such as Tremors (which we'll get to shortly) and Defensive Ball Curl. I really don't think there's anything else to mention about it then...

Now we get to his Ult, as we learned in my Kassadin review, this is also the R skill. Rammus's ult is called Tremors. Aside from Powerball, this is Rammus' only other pure offensive ability. Activating Tremors causes Rammus to create, well, tremors below him for 8 seconds, dealing a set amount of damage, plus magic damage equivalent to a percent of AP. Now, a great way to combo this is 1, activate Powerball and ram into enemy. As soon as you collide with a champion (be sure of a clear shot for Powerball) activate Tremors, then, target the enemy with Puncturing Taunt and crawl into the Defensive Ball Curl and BAM! There's either a kill or a very weak champion for an ally to pick up an assist (which was the case for me most times).

Well, that's it for me, since Rammus is a free champion this week I kinda skimped on all the stats, so I do apologize. Although I'm considering buying Rammus next 0.o The build I had for Rammus is as follows:

Atma's Impaler
Frozen Heart
Ninja Tabi
Doran's Sheild
Wardens Armor/Mail

I didn't get to build this up to it's entirety, and I apologize, it's just that Rexif kinda dominated as Kha'Zix before I could really armor up.
Remeber, it's a me, Necroanimus giving you this review and you can add me on League if you do so desire.
I'm out :p