Amumu with Bard
How to Synergize Amumu and Bard
based on 1,874 Amumu with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Amumu Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Bard
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Amumu Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is paired with Bard, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Bard helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Bard on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect companion for Amumu that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Bard is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 49.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Amumu and Bard that results in them performing better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be cautious when finding Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Amumu players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Amumu and Bard together, you will not be providing your side enough attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Amumu and Bard synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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