Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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 Thresh 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, Thresh sees a large worsening in his 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 Thresh perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is an ally to Amumu, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Amumu supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Amumu on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Amumu does a poor job of covering Thresh during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Thresh that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Amumu is a relatively poor ally for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 46.9%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Thresh and Amumu that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Amumu allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Thresh players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Thresh and Amumu together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to work well with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Thresh and Amumu synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Amumu than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Thresh and Amumu pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Amumu with Thresh are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.