Darius vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Darius
based on 3,206 Darius vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Amumu
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Darius against Amumu matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Darius normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Amumu
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Who is Better, Darius or Amumu?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when facing off against Amumu, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Darius makes an ok counter to Amumu.
While Darius does have a higher win rate than Amumu, when facing one another, Darius also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Darius into Amumu.
Additionally, Darius also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Darius vs Amumu matchups, Darius is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Darius is a decent counter to Amumu. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Darius against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Darius to counter Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius usually gets much more CS relative to Amumu. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Darius versus Amumu build consist of Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Darius bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Amumu with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Amumu as Darius, Darius players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Darius vs Amumu battles, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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