Amumu with Malzahar
How to Synergize Amumu and Malzahar
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Amumu Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Amumu Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Malzahar, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Malzahar helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, 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 Malzahar.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Amumu during teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Amumu that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Malzahar is a good teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Amumu and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you need to be very careful when finding Malzahar allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Amumu players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Amumu and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your team enough attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Amumu and Malzahar synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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