Zed vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Zed
based on 3,135 Zed vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Amumu
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several significant Zed against Amumu counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Zed often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Amumu
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Who is Better, Zed or Amumu?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when facing off against Amumu, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Amumuas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed 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 teammates during teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically accumulates much more CS compared to Amumu. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zed versus Amumu build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Amumu than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Amumu as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Zed vs Amumu counters, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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