Amumu vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Amumu
based on 3,480 Amumu vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Amumu vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Amumu in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Amumu versus Garen counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Amumu normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Amumu and Garen
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Who is Better, Amumu or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Amumu usually fairs equally well when playing against Garen, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Amumu makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Amumu does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Amumu also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Amumu into Garen.
Additionally, Amumu also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting 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 Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Amumu is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Amumu to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu usually racks up a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Amumu versus Garen build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Garen as Amumu, you should equip 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 builds that we analyzed for Amumu vs Garen clashes, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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