Amumu with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Amumu and Heimerdinger
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Amumu Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Amumu Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Amumu perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is an ally to Heimerdinger, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Heimerdinger provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Heimerdinger. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Heimerdinger does a poor job of covering Amumu in team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no ideal companion for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Heimerdinger is a very typical companion for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Amumu and Heimerdinger that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you need to be cautious when finding Heimerdinger comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Amumu and Heimerdinger together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much AD. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Amumu to work well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Amumu and Heimerdinger synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with most other common item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the greatest probability 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Amumu and Heimerdinger pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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