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.
The Amumu Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Samira helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is an ally to Samira, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Samira does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Samira 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 alongside Samira.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Samira on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Samira does a decent job of covering Amumu in team fights.
There is no top companion for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Samira is a very typical companion for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, she decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Amumu and Samira that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Samira has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Samira comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Amumu players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Amumu and Samira together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Samira ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Amumu to work well with Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Amumu and Samira synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Force of Nature, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Samira than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Samira with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Amumu and Samira pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Samira with Amumu are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.