Amumu with Naafiri
How to Synergize Amumu and Naafiri
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Amumu Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Amumu Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Naafiri helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Naafiri, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Naafiri provides protection for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Naafiri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Naafiri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Naafiri on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Naafiri does a poor job of covering Amumu in team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no perfect synergy for Amumu that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Naafiri is a pretty good teammate for Amumu. By being on the same side as Amumu, they increases their win rate by 2.0% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Amumu and Naafiri that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Naafiri has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players don't need to be very careful when lining up Naafiri comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Amumu players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Amumu and Naafiri together, you probably will not be providing your team enough AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Naafiri teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to synergize with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Amumu and Naafiri synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with most other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing 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 rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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