If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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 emphasize some critical Evelynn vs. Amumu matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Amumu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Evelynn often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Evelynn usually loses when facing off against Amumu, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Evelynn makes a poor counter for Amumu.
While Evelynn does have a lower winrate than Amumu, when facing one another, Evelynn also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Evelynn into Amumuas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Evelynn has some 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 overall in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Evelynn is a somewhat poor counter for Amumu. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Evelynn against Amumu.
If you would like to truly master Evelynn in order to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Amumu. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Evelynn versus Amumu build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Stormsurge. When Evelynn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Amumu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Evelynn boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when countering Amumu with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Amumu as Evelynn, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Evelynn vs Amumu face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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