Amumu vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Amumu
based on 1,858 Amumu vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Amumu vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Amumu in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Amumu vs. Illaoi counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Illaoi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Amumu often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Amumu and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Amumu or Illaoi?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Amumu usually loses when playing against Illaoi, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes a poor counter for Illaoi.
While Amumu does have a lower winrate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Amumu also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Amumu into Illaoi.
Moreover, Amumu also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Amumu is a terribly counter to Illaoi. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu typically accumulates a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Amumu versus Illaoi build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Amumu used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Illaoi than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Illaoi as Amumu, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Amumu vs Illaoi counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
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