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 Nilah Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nilah sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Nilah perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nilah is an ally to Amumu, they gets a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Amumu helps provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nilah is played together with Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Amumu.
Additionally, when Nilah plays with Amumu on the same side, they typically receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Amumu does a decent job of covering Nilah in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Nilah that will always be their best ally. Yet, Amumu is a below average companion for Nilah. By playing on the same side as Nilah, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 50.7%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Nilah and Amumu that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Nilah. That means Nilah players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Amumu comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Nilah players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Nilah and Amumu together, you will not be giving your team a lot of attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Amumu ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Nilah to pair well with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Nilah and Amumu synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when paired up with Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nilah had an average win rate of 50.7% helping carry Amumu with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Nilah and Amumu pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Amumu with Nilah are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.