Kai'Sa vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Kai'Sa
based on 3,887 Kai'Sa vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Amumu
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
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.
Kai'Sa vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several vital Kai'Sa versus Amumu counter stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Amumu
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Amumu?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Amumu, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Amumu.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Amumu.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a garbage counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Amumu.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players
How We Calculated Our Kai'Sa vs Amumu Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Amumu during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often accumulates much more CS relative to Amumu. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Amumu build include Bloodthirster, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Amumu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing against Amumu with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Amumu as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Amumu face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Kai'Sa are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.