Talk:Rammus/Strategy/@comment-9280387-20131205164901

I'm here to talk to you today about... AP RAMMUS. If you notice 2 out of 3 abilities with ratios scale with ap. On top of that, if you land your q and keep your opponent in the full channel of your ult, you do 340% of your ap plus their base damages totaling up to 1860. So this is what your damage looks like IF you can keep your target in the duration of your full ult which isnt hard with your taunt: 1860 + (340% AP) Magic damage. The most corest of items on rammus is Deathfire Grasp. With champions what only have a small number of damaging abilities you absolutely need it because 1. you do all of your damage in a short amount of time, 2. there is no constant poke, there is mostly all in or nothing. So deathfire grasp, zhonyas (for survivability if you go jungle or top, pls dont go mid bb and u can zhonya ur ult channel for clutch duels and some mixed damage strengthening your autos) sorc boots, sunfire cape (with ur ult + abyssal nice dot), Abyssal sceptre, and then a number of items such as Rylai's, Liandry's, banshee's veil. (everything is situational and whatever you think the best item is.) Hell you can even toss in a lichbane if you can cast your spells and proc it multiple times or you can replace it for one of the items. but mostly, the core items are DFG Abyssal and Rylai's. After that youll want some defensive items. I would also reccoment 9/21 masteries, as ap rammus is more of a mid to late game carry due to his non-fractional ratios, (meaning they are one or higher). and if you wanna all in you abosultely MUST LAND YOUR Q. YOU ONLY HAVE 2 DAMAGE SPELLS FOR THE MOST PART. If you hit minions you have to back off.

You should only play ap rammus if, against melee champs, ranged champs with no hard cc, your team has a good tanky initiator jungle/support that can follow up with your powerball (like hec, malphite, jax, leona, taric, cho gath, etc.)

Also if you're going to do ap rammus, pls tell your team what you are doing. Dont screw over the comp if you have no tanks.