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.
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Amumu vs. Master Yi matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Master Yi. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Amumu often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually loses when taking on Master Yi, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Amumu makes a poor counter to Master Yi.
While Amumu does have a lower winrate than Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Amumu also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Amumu into Master Yi.
Furthermore, Amumu has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champ with a lower 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 Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Amumu against Master Yi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to counter Master Yi 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Master Yi. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Amumu versus Master Yi build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Abyssal Mask. When Amumu bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Master Yi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when playing against Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Master Yi as Amumu, Amumu players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Amumu vs Master Yi LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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