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Leather Cowl
Spiked Gauntlet
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Temporal Beads
Aegis of Judgement
Fortifying Shell
Phantom Shell
Hunter's Cowl
Devourer's Gauntlet
Atalanta's Bow
Wind Demon
Silverbranch Bow
Envenomed Deathbringer
Hunter's Cowl
Devourer's Gauntlet
Wind Demon
Qin's Sais
Silverbranch Bow
The Executioner
Bloodforge
Ichaival
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B
A
X
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Rama in lane is only good when he has the advantage (good support/gank).
example: Enemy has a level lead + first item before you, then you shouldn't fight.
BUY 2 WARDS ON EVERY BACK! You want to always be in lane farming, wards help you to stay in lane without dying. They also let you know when u can play greedy and invade.
Mid-Late game Rama should always be conserving arrows for enemy gods (not farm).
Maintaining your farm - Always try to push the wave first, then take neutral camps, repeat. If the enemy adc tries taking your neutral camps without clearing the wave, you can push their wave into the tower and play the aggressor.
Warding -
1st
2nd
Communication - You need to let your team know where the enemy ADC is, or if there is a jungler/support/mid in your lane.
Positioning - Try not to be the frontline, Rama is the best at playing back because he can hit enemies through wall. You want to use ult to purify big cc's (like ares ult).
Force the enemy to buy spectral.. there's so many better items that they will want build (Antiheal, Witchblade, ect).
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The one thing that caught my eye though, have you been bullied by a Jing Wei in the past? LOL Because you say she has an aggressive ult but most of the time Jing is using her ultimate to get out of a tight spot + even if she does use it aggressively you can easily avoid it with Rama's
Some quick feedback:
I took your feedback a lot into consideration when working on tweaking the build.
I switched out atalantas because I also felt it didn't give enough pen (the passive is understandable on a silverbranch build, however I dislike silverbranch even on rama, its probably better on artemis).
The frontliner shredder build got tweaked to do more damage early on and I only liked the deathbringer 2nd on the Hunter Cowl Build (which I dislike but is still viable).
Qins on Crit is mainly giving more power and damage, while Obow's damage gets buffed by Gilded Arrow's Basic Attack Power.
Adc builds this season has felt all over the place alongside people watching with what the pros are building.
Thanks for the feedback and I hope you understand why I built this way.
- Your frontline shredder build is going to struggle to get much out of
Qin's Sais that early. Qin's is best built after you've gotten decent AS from other items, because you only get the most out of it when your AS is high to take advantage of the bonus damage. It's also expensive and will hurt your power spike timing compared to enemies building more efficiently. Situational AS from Gilded plus Devo's isn't doing much to help Qin's. Also, enemies won't have much health early, so you also get less from Qin's passive at that point.
- For your super safe build, I think your safer bet would be to get Cowl for the MS when you're alone, even if it's not that much. I do get Gilded (Ornate) when you're only picking up 2 crit items though, to get your chance above 50%.
Cernunnos, since his 2 is his only poke and he doesn't have a good wave-clear ability otherwise. So I save his 2 for poke and use O-Bow procs to help clear wave more quickly.
Rama. He's got super easy wave clear help in his 
Astral Strike, and you can do that safely under/near your tower against an aggressive enemy. He doesn't need O-Bow for wave clear, and you'd otherwise use O-Bow for teamfight poke. But if your concept here is playing safe, then I don't get this pick.
- Your lifestealer build doesn't have any significant pen, which is a major oversight IMO. You need at least
The Executioner in there. In a crit build like that, you'd probably replace Ich w/ Exe, or with further adjustment, you'd go a more traditional Devo's build...Cowl -> Devo's -> Exe / Rage -> Rage / Exe -> DB -> WD / PS / SS.
- Your skill leveling doesn't need point-skipping. Get a 2nd point into
Infinite Arrows at 8, ult at 9, and finish 
Astral Strike at 10.
I agree in some respects that item builds have been all over the place. At the same time, right now by far the most popular build is the bow build, especially for gods with strong activated steroids like Rama and Artemis. That would consist of Cowl, 3 or 4 bows that include Ichaival first and Silverbranch always (Atalanta usually second, O-bow optional and can be subbed with Asi), and Qin's Sais.If you do mix Qin's and crits, it's probably best to build up your AS first and get Qin's late. In that build, I would get Gilded (Ornate) -> Devo's -> WD -> Exe -> DB -> Qin's.
Thing is, O-Bow can help with wave clear, and I DO personally like to get it partially for that function. BUT...I only get it for
In your case, you're playing
If you're getting O-Bow on Rama, it should be for one purpose, which is to boost your AS in a Silverbranch build. You're not doing that here, AND you're hurting your crit damage by picking up a 0 power item, which makes this a very poor choice...also delaying you building into crits to begin by picking it up early.
If you're going to deviate from that, you still need to make sure you're hitting all the core components of a build, and you still want to make sure you've got good flow in the build.