Amumu vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Amumu
based on 3,887 Amumu vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Amumu vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Amumu in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some strategic Amumu versus Kai'Sa counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kai'Sa. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Amumu typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kai'Sa. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Amumu and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Amumu or Kai'Sa?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Amumu usually wins when trying to fight Kai'Sa, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes a great counter for Kai'Sa.
While Amumu does have a higher winrate compared to Kai'Sa, when facing one another, Amumu also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Amumu into Kai'Sa.
Moreover, Amumu also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Kai'Sa 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 a great counter to Kai'Sa. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Amumu against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to counter Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu most often gets a lot less CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Amumu versus Kai'Sa build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Amumu combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 53.6% battling Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Kai'Sa as Amumu, Amumu players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Amumu vs Kai'Sa clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.6% winrate overall.
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