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 Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
The Amumu Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tristana helps Amumu perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Tristana, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Tristana does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Tristana 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 alongside Tristana.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Tristana on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Tristana does a decent job of covering Amumu during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Amumu that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Tristana is a not very good companion for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, she drops their win rate by -2.0% to 47.0%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Amumu and Tristana that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Tristana has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Tristana allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Amumu and Tristana together, you may not be providing your other allies much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to work well with Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Amumu and Tristana synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Tristana than with most other common builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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