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.
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
The Amumu Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vladimir helps Amumu perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Vladimir, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Vladimir doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vladimir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Vladimir on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Amumu that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Vladimir is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Amumu and Vladimir that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Vladimir has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you must be very careful when arranging Vladimir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness 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.
Although, by bringing Amumu and Vladimir together, you will not be giving your team much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vladimir teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to pair well with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Amumu and Vladimir synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 48.7% helping carry Vladimir with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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 that we analyzed for Amumu and Vladimir pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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