Amumu vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Amumu
based on 973 Amumu vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Amumu vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Amumu in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Amumu versus Zilean counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, showing that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zilean..
Amumu typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Amumu and Zilean
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Who is Better, Amumu or Zilean?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes a poor counter for Zilean.
While Amumu does have a lower winrate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Amumu also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Amumu into Zilean.
Furthermore, Amumu also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Amumu is a somewhat poor counter to Zilean. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Amumu to counter Zilean during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu usually gets less CS relative to Zilean. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Amumu versus Zilean build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Zilean with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Zilean as Amumu, Amumu players 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 rune builds we have analyed for Amumu vs Zilean counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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