Amumu vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Amumu
based on 3,578 Amumu vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Blitzcrank
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
Advice to Win Against Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Amumu vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Amumu in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Amumu against Blitzcrank counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champs. Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Blitzcrank..
Amumu typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Blitzcrank. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Amumu and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Amumu or Blitzcrank?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Amumu usually loses when facing off against Blitzcrank, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Amumu makes a poor counter to Blitzcrank.
While Amumu does have a lower winrate compared to Blitzcrank, when on opposite teams, Amumu also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Amumu into Blitzcrank.
Furthermore, Amumu has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Amumu is a garbage counter to Blitzcrank. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to counter Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Blitzcrank. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Amumu versus Blitzcrank build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Amumu combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Blitzcrank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Blitzcrank as Amumu, Amumu players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Amumu vs Blitzcrank fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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