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.
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
The Amumu Ivern synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ivern, 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 Ivern. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ivern helps Amumu perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Ivern, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Ivern does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Ivern on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ivern.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Ivern on the same side, he typically takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Ivern does a decent job of protecting Amumu in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Amumu that will always be his top teammate. However, Ivern is a decent teammate for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.5%. This proves that there is a good strategic relationship between Amumu and Ivern that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Ivern has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players should be careful when enlisting Ivern comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Amumu and Ivern together, you may not be granting your side enough AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ivern ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Amumu to synergize with Ivern during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Amumu and Ivern synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Abyssal Mask. When Amumu used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Ivern than with many other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Ivern with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you 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 builds players used for Amumu and Ivern pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Ivern with Amumu are displayed for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.