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.
Try to coordinate high-damage abilities with your allies right after Dr. Mundo uses his ultimate, but if you're unable to kill him quickly with burst he will heal through the damage.
Try casting Ignite when Dr. Mundo uses Sadism to negate a large portion of its healing.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several influential Amumu versus Dr. Mundo matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Dr. Mundo’s ratio of NaN, showing that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Dr. Mundo..
Amumu often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Dr. Mundo. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually fairs equally well when taking on Dr. Mundo, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Amumu makes an ok counter for Dr. Mundo.
While Amumu does have a lower win rate than Dr. Mundo, when facing one another, Amumu also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Amumu into Dr. Mundo.
Additionally, Amumu has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Dr. Mundo. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Dr. Mundo matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Amumu is a somewhat poor counter for Dr. Mundo. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Amumu against Dr. Mundo.
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to counter Dr. Mundo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu typically racks up a lot less CS as Dr. Mundo. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Amumu versus Dr. Mundo build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Force of Nature. When Amumu used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Dr. Mundo than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Dr. Mundo with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Dr. Mundo 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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Amumu vs Dr. Mundo counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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