Hecarim with Amumu
How to Synergize Hecarim and Amumu
based on 319 Hecarim with Amumu pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Amumu Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Amumu Counter Build
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Core Hecarim Items
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Amumu
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Amumu helps Hecarim perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim plays on the same team as Amumu, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Amumu doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played alongside Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Amumu. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Amumu.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Amumu on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Amumu does a decent job of covering Hecarim in teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Amumu
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Amumu is a very bad teammate for Hecarim. By being on the same side as Hecarim, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 44.8%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Hecarim and Amumu that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players don't need to be cautious when finding Amumu teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Hecarim and Amumu together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Amumu teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to work well with Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Hecarim and Amumu synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Amumu than with many other common builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 44.8% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Hecarim players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Hecarim and Amumu pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.8% win rate overall.
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