Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Annie versus Amumu counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Amumu..
Annie typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Amumu. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Annie usually fairs equally well when playing against Amumu, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Annie makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Annie does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Annie also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Annie into Amumu.
Additionally, Annie also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Annie vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Annie is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Annie against Amumu.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie most often racks up much more CS as Amumu. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Annie versus Amumu build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Amumu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Amumu with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Amumu as Annie, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Annie vs Amumu battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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