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 Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
The Amumu Trundle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Trundle, 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 Trundle. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Trundle helps Amumu perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Trundle, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Trundle does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Trundle 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 Trundle.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Trundle on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Trundle 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, Trundle is a top-tier teammate for Amumu. By being on the same side as Amumu, he increases their win rate by 4.6% to 53.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real synergy between Amumu and Trundle that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Trundle has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Trundle allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Amumu players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Amumu and Trundle together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Trundle ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Amumu to work well with Trundle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Amumu and Trundle synergy build include Thornmail, Randuin's Omen, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Trundle than with most other common builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 53.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Trundle with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest 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 Amumu and Trundle pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Trundle with Amumu are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.