Veigar vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Veigar
based on 3,548 Veigar vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Amumu
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Veigar vs. Amumu counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu..
Veigar normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Amumu
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Who is Better, Veigar or Amumu?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually wins when playing against Amumu, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a good counter for Amumu.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate compared to Amumu, when facing one another, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Veigar into Amumuas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Amumu matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Veigar is an above average counter for Amumu. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Amumu during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average racks up much more CS compared to Amumu. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Amumu build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Amumu than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 52.7% battling Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Amumu as Veigar, Veigar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Veigar vs Amumu clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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