Nasus with Amumu
How to Synergize Nasus and Amumu
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Nasus Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Amumu
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Amumu helps Nasus perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is paired with Amumu, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Amumu supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Amumu on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Amumu does a decent job of covering Nasus in teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Amumu is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By being on the same team as Nasus, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Nasus and Amumu that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be cautious when lining up Amumu allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nasus players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Nasus and Amumu together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to synergize with Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Nasus and Amumu synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Amumu than with many other common builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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