Amumu with Talon
How to Synergize Amumu and Talon
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Amumu Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Talon
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Amumu Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Talon helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is paired with Talon, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This could indicate that Talon supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Talon.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Talon on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Amumu in team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Talon?
There is no top synergy for Amumu that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Talon is a below average companion for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Amumu and Talon that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Talon has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you should be cautious when finding Talon teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Amumu and Talon together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Amumu in order to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Amumu and Talon synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Talon than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 46.7% when playing alongside Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Amumu players should equip 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 builds players picked for Amumu and Talon pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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