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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Amumu versus Lissandra matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champions. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lissandra..
Amumu typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Lissandra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually loses when trying to fight Lissandra, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Amumu makes a poor counter for Lissandra.
While Amumu does have a lower winrate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Amumu also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Amumu into Lissandra.
Additionally, Amumu also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Amumu is a somewhat poor counter for Lissandra. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Lissandra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average accumulates a lot less CS as Lissandra. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Amumu versus Lissandra build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Lissandra than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Lissandra 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Amumu vs Lissandra matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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