Malzahar vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Malzahar
based on 3,174 Malzahar vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Amumu
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Malzahar vs. Amumu matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu..
Malzahar often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Amumu
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Amumu?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when taking on Amumu, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes an ok counter to Amumu.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Malzahar into Amumu.
Moreover, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Amumu matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Malzahar is a decent counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Amumu.
Other Champion Matchups Against Malzahar
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar on average gets much more CS compared to Amumu. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Malzahar versus Amumu build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Amumu than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Amumu as Malzahar, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Malzahar vs Amumu clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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