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.
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some valuable Amumu vs. Thresh counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between this set of champs. Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Thresh..
Amumu normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Thresh. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually wins when trying to fight Thresh, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes a good counter to Thresh.
While Amumu does have a higher win rate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Amumu also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Amumu into Thresh.
Furthermore, Amumu has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Thresh matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Amumu is a decent counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Amumu against Thresh.
To truly master Amumu in order to counter Thresh 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 listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average gets a similar amount of CS as Thresh. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Amumu versus Thresh build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Amumu included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Thresh than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 51.8% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Thresh as Amumu, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Amumu vs Thresh counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Thresh as Amumu are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.