Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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 Annie Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Amumu helps Annie perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Amumu, she observes a little drop in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Amumu does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Amumu on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Amumu does a decent job of covering Annie during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Annie that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Amumu is a very bad companion for Annie. By playing on the same side as Annie, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 45.6%. This signals that there is a terrible synergy between Annie and Amumu that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Amumu allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Annie players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Annie and Amumu together, you may not be granting your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Amumu teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Annie to pair well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Annie and Amumu synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Annie combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 45.6% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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