Amumu with Varus
How to Synergize Amumu and Varus
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Amumu Varus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Varus
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Varus
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.
Advice to Understand How Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Amumu Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Varus helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is an ally to Varus, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Varus provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Varus on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
Synergies between Amumu and Varus
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Varus?
There is no top synergy for Amumu that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Varus is a below average teammate for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 46.2%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Amumu and Varus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Varus has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Varus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Amumu and Varus together, you will not be providing your team a lot of attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Varus ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to synergize with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Amumu and Varus synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Varus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 46.2% helping carry Varus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating 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 runes players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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