Amumu vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Amumu
based on 3,135 Amumu vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Zed
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.
Advice to Win Against Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Amumu vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Amumu in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some vital Amumu against Zed counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zed. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Amumu usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Amumu and Zed
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Who is Better, Amumu or Zed?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Amumu usually fairs equally well when playing against Zed, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes an ok counter for Zed.
While Amumu does have a higher winrate than Zed, when facing one another, Amumu also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Amumu into Zed.
Furthermore, Amumu has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Zed matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Amumu is a decent counter for Zed. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Amumu against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu often picks up a lot less CS as Zed. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Amumu versus Zed build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Force of Nature. When Amumu combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Zed than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when playing against Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Zed as Amumu, Amumu players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Amumu vs Zed counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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