Alistar with Amumu
How to Synergize Alistar and Amumu
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Alistar Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Amumu
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Amumu Will Play
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.
Alistar Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Amumu, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Amumu helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Amumu on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Amumu does a poor job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no top companion for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Amumu is a terrible ally for Alistar. By being on the same side as Alistar, he drops their win rate by -4.1% to 45.3%. This shows that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Alistar and Amumu that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when finding Amumu teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Amumu together, you may not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Amumu ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to synergize with Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Alistar and Amumu synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 45.3% when playing alongside Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.3% win rate overall.
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