ok so ive been playing rammus as jg and supp for a while and ive just been wondering why should i buy iceborn guantlet
i know it has armor mana and a bit of ap but i could as well just get a zhonyas
for ten less armor and 40 more ap so any help on this would be appreciated thanks
why not lol
cdr, dmg boost and slow circle (from the sheen effect) I feel like it's more of a situational item, however unless I want to do some kind of full ap rammus I would pick it over zhonya's. As rammus, you're suposed to be tanky, anyway. Being invulnerable while your team takes all the damage means you're not doing your job.
On most standard Rammus builds, Iceborne Gauntlet has quite a bit of value. Mana is always very nice on a champion that uses it, CDR is welcome on a tank like Rammus to get his abilities off cooldown earlier, armor is good, and the slow really helps since Rammus has relatively low CC/utility for a tank.
Compared to Zhonya's, the AP and active really don't help Rammus do his job of tanking hits from the enemy team. Obviously Zhonya's is fairly decent if you try a gimmicky AP offbuild, but on Rammus' core builds it the Hourglass doesn't have a place.
That said, Iceborne really isn't that ideal of a pickup. He scales better with health due to the massive amount of resistances on his W. Armor is good too (especially with Rammus' armor scalings), but health is overall a better buy because of those innate resistances.
It's good, not necessarily great, but good. The stats are all beneficial. The active is good when he can use it, but Rammus doesn't necessarily use the active to the best effect. It triggers after using an ability. if you Q and try to catch up to someone from a distance, it might wear off before you get to them (I can't remember how long the IBG proc lasts), if you taunt them then they already aren't going anywhere. So he doesn't have the kind of spam abilities & mobility that lets other tanks/fighters chase and continually put out that slow field. Still, all the stats are solid.
No and no. Dead mans plate and righteous glory.
okay thanks for that
