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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Amumu Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ziggs helps Amumu perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Ziggs, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Ziggs supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ziggs.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Ziggs on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Amumu that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Ziggs is a terrible teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, he decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 45.4%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Amumu and Ziggs that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ziggs has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be very careful when arranging Ziggs teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Amumu and Ziggs together, you probably will not be providing your team enough attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Ziggs ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to work well with Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Amumu and Ziggs synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Amumu incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with many other typical builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 45.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ziggs with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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 runes we have analyed for Amumu and Ziggs pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.4% winrate overall.
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