Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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 provided here highlight several valuable K'Sante vs. Amumu matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Amumu..
K'Sante often has a similar longest killing spree as their counter does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Amumu, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Amumu.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Amumu, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more challenging champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Amumuas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
K'Sante is a bad counter for Amumu. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Amumu.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante typically picks up much more CS as Amumu. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Amumu build include Kaenic Rookern, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when facing Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 46.2% battling Amumu with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Amumu as K'Sante, K'Sante players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for K'Sante vs Amumu counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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