Amumu with Zed
How to Synergize Amumu and Zed
based on 3,284 Amumu with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Amumu Zed Synergy Summary
Best Amumu vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Zed
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Amumu Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Zed, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Zed supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Zed on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Amumu during team fights.
Synergies between Amumu and Zed
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal ally for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Zed is a below average companion for Amumu. By being on the same side as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Amumu and Zed that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be cautious when lining up Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Amumu players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Amumu and Zed together, you will not be granting your side a lot of cover. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Amumu and Zed synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Zed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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