Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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 emphasize several significant Warwick vs. Amumu counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Amumu. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Warwick typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Warwick usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Amumu, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Warwick does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when they face off with one another, Warwick also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Warwick into Amumu.
Furthermore, Warwick also has some amount of utility and CC, 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Warwick is a somewhat poor counter for Amumu. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Warwick against Amumu.
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick on average picks up more CS relative to Amumu. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Warwick versus Amumu build consist of Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Amumu than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Warwick boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when countering Amumu with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Amumu as Warwick, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Warwick vs Amumu clashes, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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