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.
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
The Amumu Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Thresh helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Thresh, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Thresh helps provide 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 with Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Thresh.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Thresh on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Thresh does a poor job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Amumu that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Thresh is a below average ally for Amumu. By being on the same side as Amumu, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.9%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Amumu and Thresh that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Thresh has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Thresh allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Amumu and Thresh together, you will not be giving your other teammates much AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Thresh ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to pair well with Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Amumu and Thresh synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Thresh than with many other common builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Thresh with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Amumu players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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