Naafiri vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Naafiri
based on 1,228 Naafiri vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Amumu
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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.
Naafiri vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Naafiri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Naafiri against Amumu matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Amumu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Naafiri usually has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. On average, they takes less damage than Amumu. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Amumu?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when facing off against Amumu, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Naafiri does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Naafiri into Amumu.
Furthermore, Naafiri also has some 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri often picks up much more CS relative to Amumu. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Naafiri versus Amumu build consist of Eclipse, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri included at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better versus Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Amumu with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Amumu as Naafiri, Naafiri players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Naafiri vs Amumu counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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