Brand with Amumu
How to Synergize Brand and Amumu
based on 4,262 Brand with Amumu pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Amumu Synergy Summary
Best Brand vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Brand with Amumu
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Amumu Will Play
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.
Brand Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Brand perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand plays on the same team as Amumu, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Amumu does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Amumu on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Amumu.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Amumu on the same side, he typically receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Amumu does a decent job of covering Brand during team fights.
Synergies between Brand and Amumu
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Is Brand better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no top champion pairing for Brand that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Amumu is a below average companion for Brand. By playing on the same side as Brand, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 48.5%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Brand and Amumu that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means Brand players don't need to be cautious when finding Amumu teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Brand players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Brand and Amumu together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Brand in order to synergize with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Brand and Amumu synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Amumu than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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