Vex vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Vex
based on 1,791 Vex vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Vex
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.
Vex vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Vex in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Vex vs. Amumu counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Amumu..
Vex normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they receives less damage than Amumu. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vex and Amumu
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Who is Better, Vex or Amumu?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when trying to fight Amumu, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes a poor counter to Amumu.
While Vex does have a lower winrate than Amumu, when facing one another, Vex also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Vex into Amumu.
Additionally, Vex has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vex vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Vex is a trash counter for Amumu. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vex 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often accumulates much more CS relative to Amumu. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vex versus Amumu build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better vs Amumu than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 47.4% battling Amumu with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Amumu as Vex, Vex players should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Vex vs Amumu fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Vex are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.