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Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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 Illaoi Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her 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 Illaoi perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Amumu, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Amumu helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Amumu on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Amumu does a poor job of protecting Illaoi in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Illaoi that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, overall, Amumu is a relatively poor teammate for Illaoi. By playing on the same team as Illaoi, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 47.7%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Illaoi and Amumu that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Amumu allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Illaoi and Amumu together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to work well with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Illaoi and Amumu synergy build include Black Cleaver, Hullbreaker, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Amumu than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing alongside Amumu with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Illaoi and Amumu pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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