Amumu with Briar
How to Synergize Amumu and Briar
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Amumu Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Briar
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Briar
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.
Amumu Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Briar helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Briar, he observes a moderate decrease in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Briar does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Briar on the same side, he on average receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Briar does a decent job of protecting Amumu in team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Briar?
There is no top champion pairing for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Briar is a below average teammate for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, they lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 46.9%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Amumu and Briar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Briar allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Amumu players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by pairing Amumu and Briar together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Amumu in order to work well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Amumu and Briar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Briar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Amumu players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Briar with Amumu are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.