Alistar vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Alistar
based on 1,577 Alistar vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Amumu
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Alistar vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Alistar against Amumu counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Amumu..
Alistar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Amumu. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Amumu
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Who is Better, Alistar or Amumu?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when taking on Amumu, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a poor counter for Amumu.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when facing one another, Alistar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Amumuas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar has a great 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Amumu. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Amumu build consist of Evenshroud, Knight's Vow, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Amumu than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.4% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Amumu as Alistar, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Alistar vs Amumu matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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