Leona vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Leona
based on 2,810 Leona vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Amumu
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
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.
Leona vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some critical Leona versus Amumu matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Amumu..
Leona typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Amumu. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Amumu
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Who is Better, Leona or Amumu?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually loses when trying to fight Amumu, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a bad counter to Amumu.
While Leona does have a lower winrate compared to Amumu, when facing one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Amumu.
Additionally, Leona also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Leona is a somewhat poor counter for Amumu. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Leona against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Amumu. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Leona versus Amumu build include Evenshroud, Bulwark of the Mountain, and Force of Nature. When Leona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Amumu than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 48.9% battling Amumu with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Amumu as Leona, Leona players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Leona vs Amumu clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Leona are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.