Amumu with Riven
How to Synergize Amumu and Riven
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Amumu Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Riven
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Amumu Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Amumu perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Riven, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Riven does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Riven on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Amumu during teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect synergy for Amumu that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Riven is a pretty good ally for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, she increases their win rate by 1.5% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Amumu and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you must be very careful when lining up Riven comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Amumu players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Amumu and Riven together, you will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to pair well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Amumu and Riven synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Amumu players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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