Vayne vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Vayne
based on 5,195 Vayne vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Amumu
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Vayne in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Vayne vs. Amumu counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Vayne usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Amumu
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Who is Better, Vayne or Amumu?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually wins when playing against Amumu, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes a good counter to Amumu.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate than Amumu, when facing one another, Vayne also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Amumuas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Amumu matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vayne against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vayne 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average accumulates much more CS compared to Amumu. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Vayne versus Amumu build include Bloodthirster, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Amumu than with many other common builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Amumu with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Amumu as Vayne, Vayne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Vayne vs Amumu matchups, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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