Amumu vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Amumu
based on 1,104 Amumu vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Kassadin
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.
Advice to Win Against Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Amumu vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Amumu in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Amumu against Kassadin matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kassadin. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Amumu normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kassadin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Amumu and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Amumu or Kassadin?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually loses when taking on Kassadin, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes a bad counter to Kassadin.
While Amumu does have a much lower win rate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Amumu also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Amumu into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Amumu has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Amumu is a garbage counter for Kassadin. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Amumu against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Kassadin. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Amumu versus Kassadin build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Kassadin than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 45.4% when countering Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kassadin as Amumu, Amumu players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Amumu vs Kassadin LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.4% winrate overall.
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