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[UPDATED] Diamond Jungle Rammus Guide

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Please update this guide!

The new update don´t let me use Second Wind,and Conditioning together

Lovely guide! but what would be your advice against a team that huddles around carry like ezreal which has such a cuckold e and can basically destroy you?

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If your carry is strong enough than you can peel for them instead of diving and let your carry out DPS. If your carry isn't that strong than it's best to avoid 5v5s and instead go for picks or let someone on your team splitpush if you have a good splitpusher.

Math calculation

What kind of sorcery is that? How did you do that? Are you maths professor(or just a sorcerer)?

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LMAO I'm actually a sophomore in college studying math

Ye update it, it's not updated. You say different things in Item selection and "what to buy at start etc" so please update

UPDATE PLS!

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i have playd rammus jungle even i suck in jungle and struggle there once i go jungle i dont leave till i lv.6 but i found farming in jungle with rammus is easy, you have given good builds but i still dont know the mechanic of when or how to gank before lv.6, about the build here are good and the skills ability sequance im confused which i go yours or mine, your guide is good i loved it.

You Gank exactly the same but without an ulti you don't even need since you taunt them :)?

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Ganking pre 6 is easy on Rammus and one of the reasons he is a strong pick. There's really not a ton to talk about- you just powerball up and hit them and use abilities. For champs with detrimental skillshots, you should try to predict and dodge these abilities (see my ganking section). Flash is also very powerful on Rammus and can be used to get through minion waves or past detrimental skillshots.

How come you max E second instead of W? Is it better to have a longer taunt than to gain extra armour and stuff?

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The stats gained from leveling w are almost negligible, as the stats gained are only 5% per level. It's much better to have a longer taunt. Pre-rework I maxed w first because the stat gains were large but now there's just no reason to go past a single point.

Also what do you get against their APs?

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Abyssal mask, Visage, and Adaptive helm are all good purchases

I'm kind of dumb, so after raptors you take your blue and ignore your red until after you gank?

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No, the standard path is raptors -> red -> wolves -> blue -> gank

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Why don't you use dead man's plate?

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To be honest I thought I had it in my situational item slots, I guess I forgot to put it there. I just updated it and put it there- it has decent stats and isn't a bad pickup vs heavy AD teams, but there are usually better purchases.

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I'm confused about your last edit in the jungling section: Why start with the raptors, which may give you a lot of experience but will still leave you at level 1? Isn't it better to take first one of the buffs, which will bring you straight away to level 2 (and you get the buff for the rest of the jungling)?

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Killing raptors does get you level 2 by itself

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Ooops, my bad, got that one wrong.

Do you ask for a leash to get the raptors? If so, from who (I guess it depends on whether you're on the red or the blue side)?

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I never ask my botlane to leash, and I only have my midlane leash if they have a good leashing ability e.g. syndra q, ori q, lux e. Even with no leash Rammus does raptors without taking barely any damage.

I've been using Rammus in ranked, and just bothered to look at a guide to see if anyone had better ideas.
I go red, then raptors, wolves, blue, and hope to gank.
I get cinderhulk and scout or whatever item, with mobis, then I go to thornmail right away. As for runes, I take demolish, as it helps if you get rift herald, you usually get two turrets with this rune. I also take triumph, as triumph is super good on tanks. I level up q until I hit 6, then max taunt, as some people have escapes, and I don't want them to move until they die, as sometimes laners don't know hot to follow up my ganks, so I need to keep them there longer.

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Hey, thank you for the update. Been waiting for it for a while. I have some questions about it:

1. The situational items are a bit too complicated for me (I’m still Bronze). Can you give us some examples of final builds?
2. About Wit’s End you say it’s good against a “beefy front line that lacks magic resistance”. How do you know if they lack magic resistance? Do you have to check their builds to know?
3. How do you use the control wards? Currently I use them in a very simple way: I just put one in the bush near the blue or red buff in my jungle and replace them if they destroy it. In half of the games it remains there until the end, though.
4. How useful do you think your guide is for lower ELOs? I'm in Bronze and I guess some of your advice might not apply at my level. For instance, at my level people just don't ward, sometimes not even the support, so it looks like the green smite might be better than the blue.

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Sure.

1. Situational items are items that are good in the specific scenarios that I talked about. Most games the standard build ( the one in the "Final Items" section ) will be fine, but some games you can swap out an item or two for a situational item. For example, if the enemy team had I'd probably replace locket or stoneplate with adaptive helm.

2. Yes, keeping tabs on what items the enemy team has built is an important thing to learn, and is how you know whether wit's end is an item you want to buy. If their frontline is only building armor, wit's end gets much more effective.

3. To be honest, you could probably find a jungle guide from someone better than me and see how they use control wards, since this obviously isn't a rammus exclusive thing, but I'll tell you what I know. Control wards aren't very effective in buff bushes most of the time because, as you said, it just sits there. They can be good if you expect the enemy jungle to invade your buffs, but in bronze I don't expect that to happen often. I mainly put my control wards in the following two river brushes: https://puu.sh/x1WLz/a885b9cd66.png https://puu.sh/x1WNt/a76802f630.png . Which one depends upon where I think the enemy jungler is going to be. An underrated spot is near the enemy red here: https://puu.sh/x1WOt/e55ee29747.png or here: https://puu.sh/x1WPu/d90914ef58.jpg . If you can find time to place a pink there it will often go undetected and provide a good amount of info for awhile. The last two spots I usually do are here: https://puu.sh/x1WRc/ff46b11549.jpg or here: https://puu.sh/x1WS6/da9b6ae609.jpg . You can use these either offensively ( near enemy base ) or defensively ( near your base ).

4. In my opinion, there are three main differences to be aware of when playing Rammus in high elo vs. low elo. First, you will likely be counter jungled a lot less. This is definitely a plus for Rammus- one of his main weaknesses is that he loses 1v1 to a lot of junglers like etc. Low elo junglers probably won't be able to take advantage of that fact, meaning you'll be able to get out of a lot of bad matchups for free. The second difference is that, when ganking, sometimes the enemy won't do what they should. In my ganking section, I outline what each champion should do in response to a Rammus gank, but not necessarily what they will do. However, for the most part, I feel that one should play as if the enemy will make the correct decision, since if they don't they'll probably die anyway. The last difference is that people will have less respect for your pick potential, meaning that, if you get comfortable enough on Rammus to learn how far you can chase people or kill people from, you'll get rewarded a lot by the enemy team's misplays. Overall I would say that this guide is perfectly serviceable for low elo when one keeps these things in mind.

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Thank you for the clarifications. I'm still struggling with some builds. For instance the other day I fought an almost pure AP enemy team: Brand, Morgana, Taliyah, Zac and Akali. Following the build in this guide I bought Bramble Vest first, but I quickly realized that that wasn't working: They were destroying me because I didn't have any magic resist. Would you recommend Bramble Vest in a case like this one? If not, what would you do instead?

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I guess in that case I probably would just go cinderhulk into adaptive helm or abyssal. I didn't really go over a team like that in my guide because I rarely see that much AP on one team but yeah. Bramble isn't awful but you just don't have time to build it as you need your jungle item and MR as soon as possible.

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