Amumu with Aphelios
How to Synergize Amumu and Aphelios
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Amumu Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Aphelios
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.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Amumu Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Amumu perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is an ally to Aphelios, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Aphelios helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Aphelios on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Aphelios does a poor job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Amumu that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Amumu and Aphelios that results in them performing better together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be very careful when enlisting Aphelios comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Amumu players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Amumu and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your team a lot of attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Amumu and Aphelios synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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