I've been wondering this for a while. Is Randuin's a good item on Rammus? The only thing that worries me about it is the passive, which reduces the attack speed of his attacker, making him take less W damage when you E him. Could someone do the maths and find out the difference in damage taking into consideration the armor Randuin's gives and its passive? And if it's less damage, would it still be worth? Thanks.
The answer is yes of course its good on him. While it does lessen, though only slightly, the damage he gives to them it more than compensates by reducing crits against him and the armor/health goes with his tanking.
I would say no, get frozen heart instead of Randuin. You want them to attack you, so either frozen heart or Thornmail if majority of team is AD.
id say its worth it. the amount of tankiness it provides is really good. synergy with his kit is also high, and the active is ok. frozen heart could be good too if you have mana issues. I usually build iceborn on rammus for a little bit of damage and for the mana, then go full tank.
The damage itself is negligible from your W because a) it's like, super small, b) only applies to autos, like ADC mainly, and c) a thing about AoE is that damage really matters more when it's focused onto your main target, like 3 people bursting and focusing down a single target, is the way to play, not AOE to death.
No to Frozen heart and iceborn because Rammus's W gives him so much free armor/MR that he need HP to stack it multiplicatively. Sorry for not mathing this, but Im a P2 rammus main, so just trust me and idk, check my match history or guide or something.
Also, in higher play, the slow is enormous to helping your team engage. As a math-user though, if you want real damage, Liandrys is good, and BorK is good for 1v1s after you have 2 armor items, but as I got higher, I can't do it because people get better at bursting me down.
is a great item for Rammus. He doesn't need it but its a good pick if the enemy team is crit heavy for DPS. An example would be a protect the ADC comp that has kog'maw, jinx, or tristana for dps.
