Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
The Akali Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is an ally to Amumu, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Amumu supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Amumu on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Amumu does a decent job of covering Akali in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Akali that will always be her best synergy. However, Amumu is a very typical teammate for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 49.0%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Akali and Amumu that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be cautious when finding Amumu allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Akali players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Akali and Amumu together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Amumu teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to synergize with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Akali and Amumu synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Amumu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing alongside Amumu with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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