Amumu with Rakan
How to Synergize Amumu and Rakan
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Amumu Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Amumu Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Rakan, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Rakan on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Rakan does a poor job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Amumu that will always be his best teammate. However, Rakan is a very typical ally for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 49.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Amumu and Rakan that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Rakan comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Amumu and Rakan together, you may not be granting your team very much attack damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Amumu and Rakan synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 49.1% when playing alongside Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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 rune builds players chose for Amumu and Rakan pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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