Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 Taliyah 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, Taliyah 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 worsening shows that Amumu helps Taliyah perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taliyah is paired with Amumu, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This could indicate that Amumu supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played alongside Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Amumu on the same team, she often receives less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Amumu does a decent job of protecting Taliyah during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Taliyah that will always be her ideal ally. However, overall, Amumu is a superb ally for Taliyah. By being on the same team as Taliyah, he increases their win rate by 3.0% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a very real synergy between Taliyah and Amumu that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Taliyah. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Amumu allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Taliyah and Amumu together, you will not be giving your other allies enough sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Taliyah to pair well with Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Taliyah and Amumu synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Amumu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average winrate of 51.8% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Taliyah players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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