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.
Rockets aren't always the best choice! Jinx's minigun is incredibly powerful when fully ramped up. Switch to it whenever an enemy champion gets too close.
Jinx's rockets deal full damage to all enemies in the explosion. Use them on minions in lane to hit nearby enemy champions without drawing minion aggro.
When a fight starts try to stay on the edge of fray by poking with rockets and Zap!. Do not run in and unload with the minigun until you feel it is safe.
The Amumu Jinx synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jinx, 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 Jinx. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Jinx helps Amumu perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Jinx, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Jinx supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Jinx on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jinx.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Jinx on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Jinx does a poor job of protecting Amumu in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Amumu that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Jinx is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Amumu and Jinx that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Jinx has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players should be cautious when arranging Jinx comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Amumu players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Amumu and Jinx together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Jinx teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Amumu to synergize with Jinx during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Amumu and Jinx synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Jinx than with most other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Jinx with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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 sets players chose for Amumu and Jinx 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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