Talon with Amumu
How to Synergize Talon and Amumu
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Talon Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Talon with Amumu
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.
Advice to Understand How Amumu Will Play
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.
Talon Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Talon in LoL
The Talon Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Talon sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Amumu helps Talon perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Talon plays on the same team as Amumu, he sees a clear improvement in his full damage output. This change could signal that Amumu supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played alongside Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Amumu. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Amumu on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Amumu does a decent job of covering Talon in teamfights.
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Is Talon better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no ideal companion for Talon that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Amumu is a not very good companion for Talon. By being on the same team as Talon, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Talon and Amumu that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Talon. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Amumu allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Talon players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Talon and Amumu together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Talon and Amumu synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Talon incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Amumu than with most other common builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 46.7% when playing alongside Amumu with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Talon players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% win rate overall.
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