Akshan vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Akshan
based on 1,618 Akshan vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Amumu
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Akshan vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Akshan in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Akshan against Amumu matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Akshan typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they receives less damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Amumu
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Who is Better, Akshan or Amumu?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when playing against Amumu, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate than Amumu, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Amumu.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually accumulates much more CS compared to Amumu. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Akshan versus Amumu build consist of Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better countering Amumu than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Amumu with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Amumu as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Akshan vs Amumu counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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