Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her 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 Lissandra perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra is paired with Amumu, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This could signal that Amumu helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played with Amumu on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Amumu on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Amumu does a decent job of covering Lissandra during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Lissandra that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, Amumu is a very typical ally for Lissandra. By playing on the same team as Lissandra, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 49.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Lissandra and Amumu that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be careful when lining up Amumu allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Lissandra and Amumu together, you may not be providing your side a lot of attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Amumu ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Lissandra in order to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Lissandra and Amumu synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Amumu than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 49.1% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Lissandra and Amumu pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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