Rammus Ability Cast Times

FbOTP·May 9, 2019·9 votes·7,463 views

Alright, I know we're in an assassin/bruiser jungler meta, but Rammus has been a pocket pick for me against heavy AD teams for a long time. Over the past year I have been noticing that when I cast his E-Taunt, and W-Defensive Curl, as a combination since they compliment each other with increased attack speed while W is active, at least 50% of the time my taunt goes off but my W-Defensive Curl does not. Without his W Rammus is an easy target, and this has lost me many games, I have read and re-read the ability descriptions and nowhere does it say that either ability has a cast time or a cooldown between casting another ability. If there is actually a cast time on E- Taunt, there should be an indicator in the description, if it is a bug, it needs a fix because the amount of times rammus's w fails for me in crucial situations or ridiculous.

11 Comments

Atom KnightMay 10, 20194 votes

As a Rammus main, rarely. Its not a cast time just an animation. You can do it very quickly its just when I get excited and try to press them both at the same time they don't go through. Just slow it down a bit no rush on that first w auto

FbOTPMay 10, 20191 votes

This is true, since im happy in gold and only 2 ranks away, I can just practice slowing it down and those ad comps will be easier to plow through.

macspamMay 10, 20192 votes

Pretty much every champ has cast times. For me it's more noticable on Malzahar when I really just want to cast all of E W Q R as quickly as possible. Rammus doesn't have a bunch of buttons he needs to press at once. You hit someone with Q, then press E, then press W. It's not really that important that you do it in a split second.

Done25May 9, 20191 votes

E has like a 0.5 second cast time as he "taunts" them.

FbOTPMay 9, 20192 votes

Is it in the ability description? I might be legally blind if this is the case.

ArmadilloSheildMay 10, 20193 votes

Nope, but there's an animation for the taunt which causes the unlisted cast time. To avoid this problem I tend to W (which I don't think has an animation) then E, but this gives a chance for them to get away if you're doing a max range E because the W slows you. Also can give them a window to flash if you're lagging, as W creates more particles than E it can worsen lag.