Amumu with Yorick
How to Synergize Amumu and Yorick
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Amumu Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Amumu Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yorick helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Yorick, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Yorick does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Yorick.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Yorick on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Yorick does a decent job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
Synergies between Amumu and Yorick
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no top companion for Amumu that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Yorick is a superb companion for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he increases their win rate by 3.1% to 52.1%. This signals that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Amumu and Yorick that results in them performing better together than alone.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you must be cautious when finding Yorick teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Amumu and Yorick together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Amumu to synergize with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Amumu and Yorick synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Yorick than with many other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing alongside Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Yorick with Amumu are presented for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.