Amumu with Gangplank
How to Synergize Amumu and Gangplank
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Amumu Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Amumu Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Gangplank, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Gangplank provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Gangplank on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Amumu in teamfights.
Synergies between Amumu and Gangplank
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no ideal companion for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a below average ally for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Amumu and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players must be careful when enlisting Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Amumu players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Amumu and Gangplank together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Amumu to work well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Amumu and Gangplank synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Gangplank than with most other common builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Amumu players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Amumu and Gangplank pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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