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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Amumu Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nidalee helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Nidalee, he sees a noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Nidalee does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Nidalee on the same team, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Amumu in team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, she lowers their win rate by -7.8% to 41.2%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Amumu and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players must be careful when lining up Nidalee teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Amumu players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Amumu and Nidalee together, you probably will not be providing your side very much attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Amumu to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Amumu and Nidalee synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Abyssal Mask. When Amumu used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nidalee than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 41.2% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 41.2% winrate overall.
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