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 Briar Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Briar sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Amumu helps Briar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Briar tries to synergize with Amumu, they gets a marginal improvement in their complete damage output. This change could signal that Amumu provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Briar is played with Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Amumu.
Additionally, when Briar plays with Amumu on the same team, they usually receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Amumu does a decent job of protecting Briar during teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Briar that will always be their best teammate. Yet, overall, Amumu is a very bad ally for Briar. By playing on the same side as Briar, he decreases their win rate by -4.8% to 46.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Briar and Amumu that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Briar. That means Briar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Amumu allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Briar and Amumu together, you may not be providing your team much AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Briar in order to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Briar and Amumu synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Briar included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better as an ally of Amumu than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Briar had an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Amumu with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Briar players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
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