Garen vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Garen
based on 3,480 Garen vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Amumu
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some influential Garen vs. Amumu matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between this set of champs. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Amumu..
Garen often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Amumu
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Who is Better, Garen or Amumu?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Amumu, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Garen makes an ok counter to Amumu.
While Garen does have a higher winrate than Amumu, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Amumu.
Additionally, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Amumu matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Garen is a decent counter for Amumu. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average racks up much more CS relative to Amumu. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Garen versus Amumu build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Amumu as Garen, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Garen vs Amumu matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Garen are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.