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.
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
The Amumu Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 Nunu & Willump. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nunu & Willump helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he observes a large drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Nunu & Willump does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he on average receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
There is no perfect companion for Amumu that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Nunu & Willump is a very bad teammate for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he lowers their win rate by -5.9% to 43.1%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Amumu and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you should be very careful when lining up Nunu & Willump teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Amumu and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be granting your team much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Amumu and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Abyssal Mask. When Amumu included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 43.1% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.1% winrate overall.
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