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 here emphasize some valuable Rell vs. Amumu matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Amumu. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Amumu. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when facing off against Amumu, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Rell makes an ok counter to Amumu.
While Rell does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rell into Amumu.
Moreover, Rell also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter for Amumu. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Amumu.
To truly master Rell in order to counter Amumu during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell often racks up a similar amount of CS as Amumu. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Rell versus Amumu build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Amumu than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rell had an average winrate of 49.9% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Amumu as Rell, Rell players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rell vs Amumu face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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