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 Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zeri helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Zeri, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Zeri supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Zeri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zeri.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Zeri on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zeri does a poor job of protecting Amumu during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Amumu that will always be his top ally. However, Zeri is a terrible teammate for Amumu. By being on the same side as Amumu, they decreases their win rate by -4.3% to 44.7%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Amumu and Zeri that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zeri has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players should be very careful when enlisting Zeri teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Amumu players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by grouping Amumu and Zeri together, you probably will not be giving your team very much attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zeri ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to synergize with Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Amumu and Zeri synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Zeri than with most other common builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 44.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zeri with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zeri with Amumu are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.