From a Rammus main: W is not horrible, rammus strategy/stories

First off my credentials: I've dabbled in rammus jg ever since he had a stupidly long taunt seasons ago. I've come back to maining him since his rework. I'm sitting at a 65% winrate on him with 80+ games played and have risen from s4 to g5 this past month spamming him. I pretty much only play on weekends.

Due to his Q being up more frequently and being faster, his W slow is justified... at least somewhat. I do believe it wouldn't hurt to tone down the slow to 50%, but either enough people do not play him to even care or people just don't agree with it. WHAT I WOULD like to see is bringing back the interaction between his Q and W. When his Q would still last a second after activating W and vise versa.

Let's talk champ select/ban strategy when you're playing rammus. Your biggest threat is not Vi nor is it a heavy AP comp Your biggest threat is Fiora. Either try to have her on your team or have her banned. You can still win, but winning against a team with fiora will be hard fought for you. You can gank/kill her twice in the early game, you can grab every juicy dragon buff and mini baron. She can still manage to come back. You can try to peel for your carries when she's diving your backline, but it will still be difficult espicially if she builds scimitar, an item which synergizes really well on her. She can also shred your full tank build just as well as Vi. You'd have a better chance against a team with Trundle on it. I cannot stress this enough... she is a threat.

Yasuo, chances are you're quite fortunate if he makes it past ban phase and is on the enemy team. I try to tell people not to bother banning him because at least half the time we face him, their team comp goes heavy or full on AD.

If you're playing against a rammus, don't just go heavy ap. Pick ap champs that can knock him back/snare/ stun from a distance. Morgana, lux, velkoz, syndra are all healthy champs that can do this, thus causing his ganks to fail.

STORY TIME: Going back to the OLD Q and W interaction. I had a game in which me and the adc were chunking down 2nd bot tower. We managed to kill a champion defending it, but had to make like a Maokai and split as we were dangerously low. With a very low katarina chasing us, we ran back along ways past the bushes at 1st bot tower. I started a recall in the bush as she continued running down the lane in pursuit of the adc. I made a play. I started Q, waited for it to get some speed, then came out and rammed her. She died. HOWEVER, she could have easily killed me if she reacted in time. Pretty funny situation and if the old Q and W interaction were still in place, then i would've been more confident in making that play.

In a gold match i was faced against an autofilled support lux Shaclone V2. I checked his op.gg and he has very good games with Shaco. It actually coulda been one of his smurfs, but who knows for sure. We won this game easily and this guy was flaming in all chat towards his lee sin jungler. He said "stay in jg lee" "stay bronze". O.o

Anyways that's all i got for now. Till next time, be good to eachother.

EDIT: Rammus mains, i am on your side. The W is a bit too harsh, but if you want the old W back completely, understand that their going to have to cut the uptime on his Q. If they don't cut his Q to compensate, then rammus is going to be Yasuo'd, banned alot.

The new W sucks for tower dives and drawn out team fights, but he now has a strength he didn't used to have. He's now able to easily run after people after the 1st initial engage failed to kill his target His new Q is great, thats why you max Q, then E, then W now.

No need to downvote. I encourage you to upvpte this so it builds attention and we could talk about what needs done about his W. Lord knows our champ isn't as popular as zac, who got swift attention and changes following his rework.