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.
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
The Amumu Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lucian helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Lucian, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Lucian doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lucian.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Lucian on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Lucian does a decent job of covering Amumu in team fights.
There is no one best ally for Amumu that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Lucian is a relatively poor ally for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Amumu and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be cautious when arranging Lucian teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Amumu and Lucian together, you probably will not be granting your team enough AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to pair well with Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Amumu and Lucian synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Lucian than with most other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Amumu players should take 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
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