Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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 stats shown on this page feature some significant Blitzcrank vs. Amumu counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Amumu..
Blitzcrank often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Blitzcrank usually wins when trying to fight Amumu, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Blitzcrank makes a good counter to Amumu.
While Blitzcrank does have a higher win rate compared to Amumu, when they face off with one another, Blitzcrank also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Blitzcrank into Amumu.
Additionally, Blitzcrank 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Amumu matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Blitzcrank is a good counter for Amumu. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Blitzcrank against Amumu.
To truly master Blitzcrank in order to counter Amumu 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Amumu. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Blitzcrank versus Amumu build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Amumu than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Amumu with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Amumu as Blitzcrank, Blitzcrank players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Blitzcrank vs Amumu counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Blitzcrank are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.