Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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 on this page feature some influential Tristana versus Amumu matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Amumu. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Tristana often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Amumu. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when facing off against Amumu, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a bad counter for Amumu.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Amumu, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Amumu.
Additionally, Tristana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Amumu.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana usually accumulates much more CS compared to Amumu. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Tristana versus Amumu build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Phantom Dancer, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Amumu than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing against Amumu with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Amumu as Tristana, Tristana players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tristana vs Amumu matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Tristana are shown for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.