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.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stats provided here highlight several significant Amumu against Ryze counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ryze. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Amumu typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Ryze. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Amumu usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ryze, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Amumu makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Amumu does have a higher winrate than Ryze, when facing one another, Amumu also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Amumu into Ryze.
Additionally, Amumu also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Ryze matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Amumu is a decent counter to Ryze. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Ryze.
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to counter Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Ryze. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities 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 situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Amumu versus Ryze build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Ryze than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 50.7% battling Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Ryze as Amumu, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Amumu vs Ryze counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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