Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Aatrox against Amumu matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Amumu..
Aatrox often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Amumu, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Aatrox makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Aatrox does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Aatrox also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Aatrox into Amumu.
Furthermore, Aatrox has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aatrox against Amumu.
To truly master Aatrox to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox usually gets much more CS relative to Amumu. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Aatrox versus Amumu build consist of Eclipse, Death's Dance, and Serylda's Grudge. When Aatrox used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Amumu than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 49.5% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Amumu as Aatrox, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Aatrox vs Amumu face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Aatrox are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.