Alistar vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Alistar
based on 1,427 Alistar vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Amumu
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Alistar vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Alistar versus Amumu matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Amumu..
Alistar typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Amumu
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Who is Better, Alistar or Amumu?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when trying to fight Amumu, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter for Amumu.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate than Amumu, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Amumuas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Amumu matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Amumu. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Amumu. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Alistar versus Amumu build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Amumu than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 51.2% when countering Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Amumu as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Alistar vs Amumu counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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