Amumu with Alistar
How to Synergize Amumu and Alistar
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Amumu Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Alistar
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Amumu Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Amumu sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Alistar, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Alistar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Alistar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top champion pairing for Amumu that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Alistar is a very bad companion for Amumu. By being on the same side as Amumu, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 45.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Amumu and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Amumu and Alistar together, you may not be providing your team much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Amumu in order to synergize with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Amumu and Alistar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 45.3% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.3% win rate overall.
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