Amumu with Zilean
How to Synergize Amumu and Zilean
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Amumu Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Amumu Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Zilean, he gets a noticable increase in his full damage output. This may signal that Zilean provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Zilean on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Amumu during team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top synergy for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Zilean is a below average companion for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.5%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Amumu and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you must be very careful when lining up Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Amumu and Zilean together, you may not be providing your other teammates much AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Amumu and Zilean synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zilean with Amumu are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.