Viktor vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Viktor
based on 1,233 Viktor vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Amumu
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Viktor in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several strategic Viktor vs. Amumu counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu..
Viktor often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Amumu
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Who is Better, Viktor or Amumu?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually wins when playing against Amumu, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes a good counter for Amumu.
While Viktor does have a higher winrate than Amumu, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Viktor into Amumuas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Viktor also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Amumu matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Viktor is an above average counter for Amumu. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Viktor against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Viktor in order to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor typically racks up much more CS relative to Amumu. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Viktor versus Amumu build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Amumu than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 52.2% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Amumu as Viktor, Viktor players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Viktor vs Amumu LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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