Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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 Aphelios Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Amumu helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Amumu, he observes a sizeable uptick in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Amumu helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Amumu 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 Amumu.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Amumu on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Amumu does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
There is no top ally for Aphelios that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Amumu is a good ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 49.9%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Aphelios and Amumu that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when lining up Amumu comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Aphelios players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Aphelios and Amumu together, you will not be granting your other allies enough sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Amumu ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to synergize with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Aphelios and Amumu synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Amumu than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Aphelios and Amumu pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Amumu with Aphelios are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu above.