Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 clarify several significant Taliyah versus Amumu counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Amumu..
Taliyah often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Amumu. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when playing against Amumu, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Taliyah does have a higher win rate compared to Amumu, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Amumu.
Furthermore, Taliyah has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Taliyah is a decent counter for Amumu. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Amumu.
To truly master Taliyah to counter Amumu during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually picks up much more CS as Amumu. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Taliyah versus Amumu build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Amumu than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 50.0% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Amumu as Taliyah, Taliyah players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Taliyah vs Amumu counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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