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 Samira 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, Samira 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 negative change shows that Amumu helps Samira perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira tries to synergize with Amumu, she observes a noticable increase in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Amumu provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played alongside Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Amumu on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Amumu does a poor job of covering Samira during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Samira that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Amumu is a very typical teammate for Samira. By locking into the same team as Samira, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 48.8%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Samira and Amumu that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Samira. That means Samira 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 be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Samira players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Samira and Amumu together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Samira to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Samira and Amumu synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Bloodthirster. When Samira bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Amumu than with most other typical builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Amumu with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Samira and Amumu pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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