Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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 Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Amumu, he gets a noticable increase in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Amumu helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Amumu. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Amumu on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Amumu does a decent job of protecting Graves in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Amumu is a good teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he raises their win rate by 2.9% to 53.4%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Graves and Amumu that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players don't need to be cautious when finding Amumu comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Graves players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Graves and Amumu together, you probably will not be granting your team much sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Amumu ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Graves and Amumu synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Amumu than with most other typical builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 53.4% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Graves and Amumu pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.4% winrate overall.
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