Amumu with Maokai
How to Synergize Amumu and Maokai
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Amumu Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Amumu Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Maokai, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Amumu during teamfights.
Synergies between Amumu and Maokai
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect companion for Amumu that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical companion for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 49.9%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Amumu and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players don't need to be cautious when lining up Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, Amumu players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Amumu and Maokai together, you may not be giving your other allies very much AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Amumu and Maokai synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Amumu combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Maokai with Amumu are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.