+1 for Frillen

I can add that Rammus is very flexible, you can play any build into him, as long as it has a minimum of resists, if you wanna check some other more off-meta but better to snowball builds, make sure to check mine (sry for advertising in your comment section)

132 master players played ranked with Rammus over the past 2 days and these are the item winrates.

Don't trust Rammus mains. Trust data.

Emm, Okey...

I haven't been playing a ton since the Bramble nerfs, and all my games have been short, so I only got to finish 1-2 items and haven't really bothered getting Bramble.

I think rushing a jungle item is the most reasonable plan atm to compensate for slow clearing. But don't try to powerfarm in higher elos, jungle exp and gold are nerfed too hard. Only way to win is to gank a lot and enable someone on your team to carry.

I still rush Turbo Chemtank and Dead Man's Plate before I start to worry about Bramble - and only if they have a lot of healing or sustain, or Thornmail late game vs auto attackers.

Sunfire Aegis seems to be performing better than Turbo Chemtank at the moment though. Stay up to date on Leagueofgraphs.com item stats by elo.

Gargoyle Stoneplate, Abyssal Mask and Anathema's Chains are also performing really well.

My pleasure, good sir gayweedlord!

I love this kind (of) feedback!

It's pretty hard to find items that provide more value for Rammus at the moment than Turbo Chemtank, Dead Man's Plate, Thornmail, Gargoyle Stoneplate and Force of Nature. Abyssal Mask and Warmog's Armor are decent alternatives to force of nature, but pretty much all the other items are unmatched.

Predator might be a thing tho!

Riftmaker is not good early or mid game, but if you go deadmans, gargoyles into Riftmaker 3rd or 4th I'd expect it to be a a very strong late game mythic.

The problem is that nothing really competes with chemtank and deadmans rush at the moment.

At first glance it doesn't look very fonky. It's a bit of a struggle to keep tempo early already, so seem like we might be going full support Rammus soon. Who knows, maybe the new ult is gonna be so OP that we'll be fine. Or worst case we're gonna suck for a few patches and hope for a buff. It goes up and down!

I absolutely love Unflinching, because it reduces the 30% self-slow from Defensive Ball Curl. However, if you plan on building Mercury's Treads and/or taking Legend: Tenacity, then Overgrowth has it's place.

So again, it all depends on your matchup and play-style. Unflinching synergize with Boots of Swiftness and both Bloodrazor and Cinderhulk, whereas Overgrowth is more situational into less slows, more hard cc and full tank into AP comps.

It can be quite difficult to determine what works best into such heavy AP comps. If your team has the better front-to-back team fight, then consider being a massive frontliner with cinderhulk/overgrowth.

If not, then you might wanna avoid teamfights by going for map pressure with splitpushing and skirmishes by building Bloodrazor and Wit's End early. Sometimes you don't have a team comp for either teamfighting or splitting, then you should probably have dodged or pray that enemy throws 5k gold worth of shutdowns.

Mobility Boots and Turbo Chemtank might give you better opportunity to pick the fights you want, but if enemy choses the fights you might be better off with more combat/tank stats from Ninja Tabi or Mercury's Treads.

Bottom line is; often there isn't a "best" general option, but only best in certain situations. For instance, the few players out there who reached master+ with Rammus has had a wide range of playstyles, runes and builds. There is no "best build" or "best runes" ;)