Zyra vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Zyra
based on 3,905 Zyra vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Amumu
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Zyra versus Amumu counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Amumu..
Zyra usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Amumu. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Amumu
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Who is Better, Zyra or Amumu?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when facing off against Amumu, with a 53.5% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a great counter for Amumu.
While Zyra does have a higher win rate than Amumu, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Amumuas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zyra also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Amumu matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zyra is a great counter for Amumu. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zyra 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average accumulates more CS relative to Amumu. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zyra versus Amumu build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Zyra included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Amumu than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average winrate of 53.5% when playing against Amumu with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Amumu as Zyra, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Zyra vs Amumu battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.5% win rate overall.
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