Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
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.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
The Amumu Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Taric helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is paired with Taric, he sees a noticable increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Taric helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Taric on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Taric.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Taric on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Taric does a poor job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Amumu that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Taric is a very typical companion for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 52.9%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Amumu and Taric that results in them performing better together than alone.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Amumu. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Taric teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Amumu players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Amumu and Taric together, you may not be providing your team enough AD. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Amumu in order to synergize with Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Amumu and Taric synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Demonic Embrace. When Amumu combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing alongside Taric with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Amumu and Taric pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.9% win rate overall.
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