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 cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
The Amumu Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taric helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Taric, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Taric provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Taric 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 with Taric.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Taric on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Taric does a decent job of protecting Amumu in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Amumu that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Taric is a decent teammate for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he raises their win rate by 2.3% to 51.3%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Amumu and Taric that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players don't need to be cautious when finding Taric allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Amumu and Taric together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Taric ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Amumu in order to work well with Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Amumu and Taric synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Taric than with most other common item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing alongside Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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 players chose for Amumu and Taric pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Taric with Amumu are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.