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.
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
The Amumu Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Graves helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is paired with Graves, he observes a measurable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Graves does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Graves on the same side, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Amumu in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Amumu that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Graves is a top-tier teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, he improves their win rate by 4.4% to 53.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong bond between Amumu and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Amumu players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Amumu and Graves together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Amumu in order to pair well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Amumu and Graves synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Celestial Opposition. When Amumu incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Amumu players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.4% winrate overall.
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