Amumu with Katarina
How to Synergize Amumu and Katarina
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Amumu Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Amumu Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Katarina, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Katarina does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Katarina on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Amumu in teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect ally for Amumu that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, she drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.2%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Amumu and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players must be cautious when lining up Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Amumu players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Amumu and Katarina together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of AD. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Amumu and Katarina synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Amumu included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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