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.
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some strategic Amumu vs. Elise matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Amumu often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Elise. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Amumu usually wins when trying to fight Elise, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes a good counter to Elise.
While Amumu does have a higher win rate than Elise, when on opposite teams, Amumu also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Amumu into Elise.
Moreover, Amumu has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Elise matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Amumu is an above average counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Elise.
To truly master Amumu in order to counter Elise during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Elise. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Amumu versus Elise build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Elise than with many other common item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Elise with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Elise 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 sets we have analyed for Amumu vs Elise counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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