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.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Amumu Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Amumu sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aatrox helps Amumu perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is an ally to Aatrox, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Aatrox does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aatrox. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aatrox.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Aatrox on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Aatrox does a decent job of protecting Amumu during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Amumu that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Aatrox is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 49.4%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Amumu and Aatrox that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Aatrox has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you must be very careful when lining up Aatrox teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Amumu and Aatrox together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Aatrox ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to pair well with Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Amumu and Aatrox synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Aatrox than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Aatrox with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Amumu players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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