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.
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
The Amumu Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Amumu perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Gragas, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Gragas provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Gragas on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Amumu that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Gragas is a very typical ally for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Amumu and Gragas that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players must be careful when finding Gragas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Amumu and Gragas together, you may not be granting your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Amumu to work well with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Amumu and Gragas synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Gragas than with most other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Amumu players 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 we have analyed for Amumu and Gragas pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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