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.
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
The Amumu Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vayne helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Vayne, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Vayne provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Vayne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vayne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vayne.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Vayne on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Vayne does a poor job of covering Amumu during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Vayne is a very typical companion for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 49.5%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Amumu and Vayne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vayne has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you should be cautious when finding Vayne comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Amumu players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Amumu and Vayne together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much engage potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Vayne ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to work well with Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Amumu and Vayne synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Vayne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Vayne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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 sets players used for Amumu and Vayne pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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