Zed with Amumu
How to Synergize Zed and Amumu
based on 3,284 Zed with Amumu pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Zed with Amumu
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.
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.
Zed Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Amumu helps Zed perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed plays on the same team as Amumu, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Amumu provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Amumu on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Amumu does a decent job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no perfect companion for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Amumu is a very typical teammate for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Zed and Amumu that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when arranging Amumu allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zed players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Zed and Amumu together, you may not be granting your team very much engage potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to synergize with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Zed and Amumu synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Amumu than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed and Amumu pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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