Garen with Amumu
How to Synergize Garen and Amumu
based on 3,302 Garen with Amumu pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Amumu Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Garen with Amumu
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Amumu helps Garen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Amumu, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Amumu supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen 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 with Amumu.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Amumu on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Amumu does a decent job of covering Garen during team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Amumu
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Is Garen better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no one best champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Amumu is a very typical companion for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 47.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Garen and Amumu that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Amumu comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Garen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Garen and Amumu together, you may not be providing your other teammates much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to synergize with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Garen and Amumu synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Amumu than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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