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Strategy is highly subjective and may become outdated without any notice. Because of this, the League of Legends Wiki has decided to retire strategy pages and would recommend using other platforms (such as YouTube) to find guides. For more information visit this thread.

  • This page continues to exist for archive purposes.


Recommended Items[]

Summoner's Rift
Starting Doran's Shield item Health Potion item2 Warding Totem item
Early Boots of Speed item Bami's Cinder item Chain Vest item
Essential Mercury's Treads item Sunfire Cape item Frozen Heart item
Defensive Randuin's Omen item Locket of the Iron Solari item Thornmail item
Situational Righteous Glory item Liandry's Torment item Abyssal Mask item
Consumables Health Potion item Control Ward item Elixir of Iron item
Summoner's Rift (Jungler)
Starting Hunter's Talisman item Refillable Potion item Warding Totem item
Early Boots of Speed item Stalker's Blade item Bami's Cinder item
Essential Ninja Tabi item Stalker's Blade (Cinderhulk) item Abyssal Mask item
Defensive Gargoyle Stoneplate item Thornmail item Frozen Heart item
Situational Rylai's Crystal Scepter item Liandry's Torment item Randuin's Omen item
Consumables Health Potion item Control Ward item Elixir of Iron item
Twisted Treeline
Starting Boots of Speed item Doran's Ring item Health Potion item2
Essential Doran's Ring item Sunfire Cape item Mercury's Treads item
Offensive Rylai's Crystal Scepter item Wooglet's Witchcap item Moonflair Spellblade item
Defensive Abyssal Mask item Frozen Heart item Righteous Glory item
Consumables Health Potion item Elixir of Iron item
Twisted Treeline (Jungler)
Starting Hunter's Talisman item Hunter's Machete item Refillable Potion item
Essential Hunter's Potion item Stalker's Blade (Cinderhulk) item Boots of Mobility item
Offensive Rylai's Crystal Scepter item Wooglet's Witchcap item Moonflair Spellblade item
Defensive Abyssal Mask item Frozen Heart item Righteous Glory item
Consumables Health Potion item Elixir of Iron item
Howling Abyss
Starting Guardian's Horn item Boots of Speed item Health Potion item3
Essential Mercury's Treads item Sunfire Cape item Abyssal Mask item
Offensive Rylai's Crystal Scepter item Liandry's Torment item Hextech Protobelt-01 item
Defensive Frozen Heart item Randuin's Omen item Locket of the Iron Solari item
Consumables Oracle's Extract item Health Potion item Elixir of Iron item Corrupting Potion item

Tips[]

Playing As Amumu Amumu
  • 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 Crest of Insight Crest of Insight whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
  • Despair Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Playing Against Amumu Amumu
  • Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate ultimate available.
  • Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss Bandage Toss.
  • Amumu's Despair Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.

Tricks[]

Ability Usage
  • Cursed Touch Cursed Touch debuffs an enemy's magic resistance which makes Amumu and his allies do more magic damage to affected targets.
  • Bandage Toss Bandage Toss is Amumu's main initiation skill. He can use this as a gank/teamfight opener to get him into the fray or to provide mobility by dashing to minions/monsters to escape or simply to navigate over terrain.
    • During the time when an enemy champion is Stun icon stunned from Bandage Toss Bandage Toss, Amumu can basic attack first to apply Cursed Touch so that his and his allies' followup skills deal more damage.
  • Despair Despair can be used to clear minion waves or jungle camps. Its % health damage allows Amumu to deal significant damage to all kinds of enemies even without any damage items.
    • Despair Despair retains the same flat mana cost and cooldown no matter the skill's level. A high mana pool can allow him keep it on for extended periods of time.
  • Tantrum Tantrum deals AoE damage around Amumu and passively provides a bit of physical damage reduction. Its cooldown is also decreased whenever he is basic attacked.
    • This is the Sad Mummy's bread and butter for clearing camps and dealing damage. Since he also takes reduced damage, he can easily tank monster and minion attacks. This in turn lowers the ability's cooldown, which allows it to be spammed.
  • Curse of the Sad Mummy Curse of the Sad Mummy is a great peeling and/or lockdown tool as it can affect multiple enemies in a very large radius.
    • Optimally, it should be used right after Bandage Toss Bandage Toss to give enemies as little time as possible to react. It should also be used if multiple champions can be hit rather than just a single one.
    • Using the previously mentioned tactic, after the whole ensemble, Curse of the Sad Mummy Curse of the Sad Mummy can be added as a finisher or somewhere among the process to freeze targets with ease.
Rune Usage
Item Usage
Countering
  • Amumu can play well solo against all odds with high defenses, ability power and mana to consume.
  • Ensure there is plenty of coverage near brushes or behind walls with wards or other vision techniques to avoid potential ganks.
  • Bandage Toss Bandage Toss can cause major trouble so be on the move to avoid it.
  • Avoid standing too close to Amumu whilst Despair Despair is active as it cuts health by the second. Peel him off or excel his speed to escape.
  • In teamfights, Amumu will always aim the squishiest with Bandage Toss Bandage Toss followed by Curse of the Sad Mummy Curse of the Sad Mummy and all other skills which can cause major damage to all victims.
  • Try and build Tenacity Tenacity and magic resistance when facing him to ensure lesser stun and ability damage.
  • In the jungle, Amumu can engage half attacked neutral monsters to finish them off so pull them away from the camp.

References[]

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