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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Amumu Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Azir helps Amumu perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Azir, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Azir does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Azir.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Azir on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Azir does a decent job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Amumu that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Azir is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.5%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Amumu and Azir that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Azir has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be careful when lining up Azir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Amumu and Azir together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Azir ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to pair well with Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Amumu and Azir synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Azir than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Azir with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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 builds players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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