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.
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several strategic Amumu versus Renekton counter stats that may help us realize the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Renekton’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Renekton. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Amumu typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Renekton. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Amumu usually fairs equally well when taking on Renekton, with a 50.8% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes an ok counter for Renekton.
While Amumu does have a higher winrate than Renekton, when facing one another, Amumu also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Amumu into Renekton.
Furthermore, Amumu has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Renekton. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Renekton matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Amumu is a decent counter to Renekton. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Renekton.
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to counter Renekton during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Renekton. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Amumu versus Renekton build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Renekton than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Renekton with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Renekton 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 players picked for Amumu vs Renekton battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
If you would like to see Amumu x Renekton tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a an individual player tier, feel free to choose one from the selection menu provided above. At first, the stats and build suggestions displayed are calculated using all games played with these champions.