Amumu vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Amumu
based on 5,890 Amumu vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Amumu vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Amumu in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several strategic Amumu versus Brand counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand..
Amumu often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Brand. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Amumu and Brand
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Who is Better, Amumu or Brand?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Amumu usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Amumu makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Amumu does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when they face off with one another, Amumu also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Amumu into Brand.
Furthermore, Amumu has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Amumu is a bad counter to Brand. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Amumu against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Amumu to counter Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average racks up less CS compared to Brand. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Amumu versus Brand build consist of Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Hollow Radiance. When Amumu incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Brand than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when countering Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Brand as Amumu, Amumu players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Amumu vs Brand battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.0% winrate overall.
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