Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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 Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her 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 Kalista perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Amumu, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Amumu supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Amumu. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Amumu on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Amumu does a decent job of covering Kalista during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, Amumu is a relatively poor teammate for Kalista. By locking into the same team as Kalista, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 46.0%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Kalista and Amumu that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when finding Amumu allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kalista and Amumu together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough engage potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Amumu teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to pair well with Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Kalista and Amumu synergy build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Amumu than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 46.0% when playing alongside Amumu with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Kalista players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
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