Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Amumu helps Irelia perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is paired with Amumu, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This difference may signal that Amumu supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Amumu on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Amumu does a poor job of protecting Irelia in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Irelia that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Amumu is a very typical ally for Irelia. By being on the same side as Irelia, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 49.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Irelia and Amumu that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Amumu allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Irelia players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Irelia and Amumu together, you may not be giving your team much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to synergize with Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Irelia and Amumu synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Amumu than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Amumu with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Irelia and Amumu pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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