Amumu vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Amumu
based on 3,861 Amumu vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Amumu vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Amumu in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several influential Amumu against Diana counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Diana. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Amumu normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Diana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Amumu and Diana
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Who is Better, Amumu or Diana?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually fairs equally well when facing off against Diana, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Amumu makes an ok counter for Diana.
While Amumu does have a higher winrate compared to Diana, when they face off with one another, Amumu also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Amumu into Diana.
Moreover, Amumu has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Diana matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Amumu is a decent counter for Diana. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Amumu against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to counter Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu most often gets a lot less CS compared to Diana. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Amumu versus Diana build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Diana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Diana as Amumu, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Amumu vs Diana clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Diana as Amumu are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.