Rek'Sai vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Rek'Sai
based on 395 Rek'Sai vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Amumu
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several critical Rek'Sai versus Amumu matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Rek'Sai often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Amumu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Amumu
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Amumu?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rek'Sai usually wins when facing off against Amumu, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Rek'Sai makes a good counter to Amumu.
While Rek'Sai does have a higher win rate compared to Amumu, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rek'Sai into Amumu.
Furthermore, Rek'Sai has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Amumu matchups, Rek'Sai is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Rek'Sai is a decent counter to Amumu. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai in order to counter Amumu during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Amumu. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Rek'Sai versus Amumu build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Amumu than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Amumu with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Amumu as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Rek'Sai vs Amumu clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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