Amumu with Illaoi
How to Synergize Amumu and Illaoi
based on 1,697 Amumu with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Amumu Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Amumu vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Amumu Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Illaoi helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Illaoi, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Illaoi provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Illaoi.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Illaoi on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
Synergies between Amumu and Illaoi
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Amumu that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Illaoi is a not very good companion for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 47.7%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Amumu and Illaoi that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Illaoi has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be cautious when arranging Illaoi allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Amumu and Illaoi together, you will not be giving your other teammates much attack damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to work well with Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Amumu and Illaoi synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 47.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Amumu players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Amumu and Illaoi pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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