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the Armordillo
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (658 games).
Rammus, the Armordillo, turns armor and magic resist into attack damage through Spiked Shell and taunts one enemy into attacking him with Frenzying Taunt. Aftershock was the keystone on nearly every Rammus in our small Master+ sample, and Thornmail came first in the path bought most. His one well-counted rival, Lee Sin, beat him more often than not.
Tank
Patch 26.18 · Jungle · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 658 games · Preview sample
658
Games
Low
Confidence
Win rate by lane
68.6%Win Rate
Smite
Flash43.8%Win Rate
Smite
Ghost
This exact page: taken in 25.5% of games·53.0% win rate over 168 games.
After immobilizing an enemy champion gain defenses and later deal a burst of magic damage around you.
Impairing the movement of an enemy champion heals nearby allied champions.
After 12 min gain +8 Armor and +8 Magic Resist and increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 3%.
Gain Armor and Magic Resist when receiving crowd control.
Takedowns restore 5% of your missing health and grant an additional 20 gold.
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Attack Speed.
Electrocute4.4% taken · 20.7% win29 games
Unsealed Spellbook0.6% taken · 50.0% win4 games
First Strike0.3% taken · 50.0% win2 gamesResolve + Precision63.8% taken · 51.4% win420 games
Resolve + Sorcery24.9% taken · 48.8% win164 games
Domination + Sorcery4.4% taken · 24.1% win29 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Rammus's most common path.
QRammus accelerates in a ball towards his enemies, dealing damage and slowing targets affected by the impact.
Cooldown 12/10.5/9/7.5/6s · 60 Mana
WRammus goes into a defensive formation, vastly increasing his Armor and Magic Resistance, and returning damage to enemies that attack him.
Cooldown 7s · 40 Mana
ERammus taunts an enemy champion or monster into a reckless assault against him.
Cooldown 12s · 50 Mana
RRammus hops into the air and slams down at a target area, dealing magic damage and slowing enemies.
Cooldown 120/105/90s · 100 ManaMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QPowerball | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WDefensive Ball Curl | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| EFrenzying Taunt | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| RSoaring Slam | R | R | R |
How Rammus performs against enemy jungle laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
RammusJungle average
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Build percentage damage — flat penetration falls off against the stats it stacks
Punish the cooldown — Rammus is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 5/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
Trade on your terms — take the fight where its damage lands on nobody
PSpiked Shell
Rammus gains bonus Attack Damage scaling with his Armor and Magic Resistance.
Passive — never cast
QPowerball
Rammus accelerates in a ball towards his enemies, dealing damage and slowing targets affected by the impact.
Cost 60 ManaCooldown 12/10.5/9/7.5/6sRange 300
WDefensive Ball Curl
Rammus goes into a defensive formation, vastly increasing his Armor and Magic Resistance, and returning damage to enemies that attack him.
Cost 40 ManaCooldown 7sRange 300
EFrenzying Taunt
Rammus taunts an enemy champion or monster into a reckless assault against him.
Cost 50 ManaCooldown 12sRange 325
RSoaring Slam
Rammus hops into the air and slams down at a target area, dealing magic damage and slowing enemies. If cast while Rammus is in Powerball, Rammus knocks up enemies near the center as well.
Cost 100 ManaCooldown 120/105/90sRange 25000
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Rammus in 2 patches. The latest is patch 25.13, published 2025-06-24.
Base Stats
WDefensive Ball Curl
Rammus's update was successful in making him much more consistently useful but we shot a little low on his power level. We'd like to buff him back up and specifically re-enable the choices he used to have around what ability to max first. We're giving him some generic durability and empowering Defensive Ball Curl's rank-up as a way to ensure he can opt into being the tankiest armordillo he can be.
Base Stats
PSpiked Shell
QPowerball
WDefensive Ball Curl
EFrenzying Taunt
RSoaring Slam
In this patch we’re giving Rammus an update with three main goals. First, we’d like to retain him as an anti-auto attack tank, but within that umbrella, allow him to be successful when tanking magic damage auto-attacks as well with the hope that he can be picked outside of last pick against full AD team comps. Second, we’d like to punch up a few of his abilities, giving him more impactful Powerballs and Soaring Slams by frontloading more of those abilities. Third, we’d like to remove some needless complexity from the champion that required exact ability sequencing that simply had a “right” answer with no room for finesse. Our hopes for this update are that Rammus will be a viable tank in more situations, still strongly in love with Thornmail, and overall “OK” in more team compositions.
Riot's data lists 13 looks for Rammus with their own art, the base skin included and 23 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Rammus | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 645 | =39th | 620 |
| Health per level | 100 | =117th | 104 |
| Base armor | 35 | =31st | 30 |
| Armor per level | 4.5 | =92nd | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 2.05 | =4th | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 65 | =21st | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.7 | =9th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 2.215% | 100th | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 335 | =74th | 335 |
| Attack range | 125 | =129th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 645 | +100 | 2345 | 111th of 173 |
| Mana | 310 | +33 | 871 | 126th of 145 |
| Armor | 35 | +4.5 | 111.5 | =57th of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 | =5th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Rammus, the Armordillo, is a Tank champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 5/10 for difficulty, 4/10 for attack, 10/10 for defense and 5/10 for magic. Rammus spends Mana and has 13 skins with their own art. Rammus's base attack speed of 0.7 is the 9th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 1 other).
Idolized by many, dismissed by some, mystifying to all, the curious being Rammus is an enigma. Protected by a spiked shell, he inspires increasingly disparate theories on his origin wherever he goes—from demigod, to sacred oracle, to a mere beast transformed by magic. Whatever the truth may be, Rammus keeps his own counsel and stops for no one as he roams the Shuriman desert.
Published by League of Legends on YouTube, 20 December 2011.
14 years old. League of Legends has been patched since, so watch it for how the kit plays, not for numbers — the rest of this page is written for the current patch.
It plays in YouTube’s own player once you press play. Nothing is downloaded or re-hosted here, and nothing loads from YouTube until then.
