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.
The Amumu Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Volibear helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is an ally to Volibear, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This may signal that Volibear does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Volibear on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Volibear.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Volibear on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Volibear does a decent job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Volibear is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Amumu and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Volibear has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Volibear comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Amumu players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Amumu and Volibear together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Amumu to work well with Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Amumu and Volibear synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Volibear than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Amumu players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Amumu and Volibear pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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