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.
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
The Amumu Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lux helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Lux, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change may signal that Lux provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Lux 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 synergisticly with Lux.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Lux on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Lux does a poor job of protecting Amumu in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Lux is a very typical companion for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 49.4%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Amumu and Lux that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Lux has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players should be very careful when arranging Lux comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Amumu and Lux together, you may not be providing your side very much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Lux teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Amumu to work well with Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Amumu and Lux synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Lux than with most other common item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Lux with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Amumu players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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