Amumu with Garen
How to Synergize Amumu and Garen
based on 3,302 Amumu with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Amumu Garen Synergy Summary
Best Amumu vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Garen
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Amumu Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Amumu perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Garen, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Garen provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Garen on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Garen does a decent job of protecting Amumu during team fights.
Synergies between Amumu and Garen
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Amumu that will always be his ideal ally. However, Garen is a not very good teammate for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Amumu and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be careful when finding Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Amumu and Garen together, you will not be granting your team very much AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Amumu to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Amumu and Garen synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Amumu bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 47.8% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Amumu players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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