Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here show some vital Ziggs vs. Amumu counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Amumu..
Ziggs often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Amumu. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually wins when playing against Amumu, with a 54.6% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes a great counter for Amumu.
While Ziggs does have a much higher winrate than Amumu, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Ziggs into Amumu.
Furthermore, Ziggs also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Amumu matchups, Ziggs is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a great counter for Amumu. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Amumu.
If you would like to truly master Ziggs in order to counter Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs usually racks up much more CS as Amumu. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Ziggs versus Amumu build include Liandry's Anguish, Seraph's Embrace, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Ziggs used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Amumu than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 54.6% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Amumu as Ziggs, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ziggs vs Amumu counters, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.6% win rate overall.
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