gg

Pros + Superb teamfights and gamebreaking ultimate. + Immortal late game. + Very tanky, also with ridiculous damage. + Gives your team many utility (MR reduction, Stun, snare, slow, auras, etc. + Farm effectively with Despair and Tantrum. + Sustained and fast jungler with powerful ganks.

gg

space

Cons - Hard to master Bandage Toss. - Weak early game 1v1. - Bad mana sustain pre- philosopher's stone - Squishier compared to full tank build. - Run out of mana quickly if you spam Tantrum. - Susceptible to Counter-jungling .

What do you need to be a good Amumu?

1.Team Playing

• Craft team and working on composition nicely
• Know the limit of your allies and you
• Have good communication and information
• Know everything about their junglers

2.Personal Skills

• Adapt to the situation well
• Have keen sense of Map Awareness
• Know the Baiting and Forcing technique
• Have good understanding of Tank role and initiation
• Land skillshots 95% of the time

3.Good Mentality

• Know how to be the leader and follower
• Have hope and perseverance
• Can lead his team to victory
• Be calm when there's peace, be fierce during the battle
• Be unpredictable

4.Sportsmanship

• Pay respect to your enemies and your teammates.
• Refrain from using racial words and rude words
• Do not shout at other teammates.
• Do not use sarcasm!
• Try your best, no rage and flaming

0-21-9, The Best setup for Amumu

Q U I N T E S S E N C E

SPA

Greater Quintessence of Health: These are my favorite runes. Worth the 2050 IP cost because this rune fits with many champions and gives you better sustain in the jungle. Greater Quintessence of Armor: You can use these cheap quints instead.The advantage of this is to use when you get Veteran's Scars masteries. The reason I don't include it in the main build is because this rune is not suitable for most champs. Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed: These rune are really good on Amumu, although I don't include it because it make your jungling less sustained .

SPA

Q U I N T E S S E N C E

M A R K S

SPA Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: The only great mark on Amumu. Although it doesn't helps in the jungle, it can penetrate the magic resistance of enemies.in ganking phase. It will be useful later when people didn't realize you do so much damage and have penetration. Greater Mark of Armor:These runes are the only other marks for him. It makes his jungle easier, but doesn't help him much after that. Considering Amumu is a mid-late champ, this rune is not that practical.

SPA[.color]

M A R K S

S E A L S

SPA Greater Seal of Armor: One of the best seals in this game. Gives Amumu 13 armor throughout the game. It benefits him for the jungling part and make him bulky without having to buy Cloth Armor early. Greater Seal of Scaling Mana Regeneration:These runes are for people who don't plan on buying Banshee's Veil. Gives a lot of mana regen which contributes to your Despair. Greater Seal of Health: It is very good at level 1, because in level 1 fights, every extra bit of health counts. Also good if you don't have quints of fortitude.

SPA

S E A L S

G L Y P H S

SPA

Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: The best glyphs in the game, second to Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction. Because Amumu doesn't enter the lane early, the warding runes are useless. Gives Amumu much needed MR before grabbing Banshee's Veil. Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction:Is used for Tantrum spammer maniac. Good for lowering your utlimate's long CD.

SPA

G L Y P H S

• New Amumu: Ghost& Smite
• High Amumu: Flash& Smite
  

  Great Spells

  
  Smite
  High true damage to minions and monsters
  Essential in the jungle. Can be used to secure buffs, speed up the jungle, steal buffs/dragon/baron, etc. There are many things you can do with it. Without this, Amumu cannot jungle at all.

Flash
Teleports to cursor
The most overpowered spell ever.It can be used to position your ulti and chase. It can also be used to escape of steal buffs/baron. If there are no problems with your brain, grab this.
Ghost
Run faster and can run through creeps
This is picked when their team runs fast. Better than flash in that case.
very useless to initiate to initiate with, because you will be ****ed by a ****load of CC and you won't be able to get in the middle of them.

Bandage Toss: :One of Amumu's best utility ability. It is a skillshot stun which can travel across the wall and deals TONS OF DAMAGE.
It has 100% AP scaling, which makes it a reliable burst skill. Early/Mid game this skill is used for utility aspects, so we level up this skill last.

• In the middle of Bandage Toss, you can activate your other skills. This is useful when using Bandage toss and Despair to quickly clear a camp.
• Bandage Toss can be used to escape in the jungle by tossing it to the camps. This strategy also make your clear time faster if you have Blue Buff.
• If you get out of battle, don't try to Bandage Toss back into the fray. Most of the times your teammate will already go back and you will be left for dead!
• Use this skill to setup your ultimate. Bandage toss into their team and pop your ultimate for maximum damage and CC.

Despair: Your powerful AoE damaging ability. Since it deals health percentage damage,you should use this to tanks so that they get hurted hard.
If you have 200-300 AP, it's like having AoE Madred's Bloodrazor on your own! Start maxing this mid-game, when your enemies start to stack health.

• Only toggle this continuously when you are fighting, have blue buff, or in late game.
• Use this ability to chase low health enemies. It has more range than Tantrum and more accurate than Bandage Toss in some situations.
• Use this like poison gas for escaping, it will create the "Don't chase singed" mentality in their minds.
• This ability can melt Baron Nashor and Dragon's health really fast. Use this wisely.

Tantrum: This ability is one of things that make Amumu so powerful. Firstly the passive parts reduce damage from minions by 10, which is very useful for farming and jungling.
The second part is a little nuke that can be spammed if your enemies/minions focus you. This ability has 50% AP scaling, so it scales pretty well into late game. Max this ability first, considering the -minion damage utility and burst.

• Use this when you are in the middle of teamfight and everyone focuses you. Late game it is effective because mana cost stays at 50 per use.
• When using Tantrum to clear minion waves, run in the front of your minions to recieves maximum aggro from enemy minions, thus making Tantrum spammable.
• This ability make jungling and farming a breeze. Utilize it to the best!

Ultimate - Curse of the Sad Mummy: This is what defines Amumu and seperates good one from the bad one. It is a gamebreaking ultimate that snares all enemies in your
Hieroglyphic Seal for 2 seconds, unable to attack or move. This ability is really powerful, because it has 100% AP scaling and very big AoE range. The cooldown is abysmal 170-130 second, so save this to use in inportant teamfights or chases.
The best part of this ultimate is that it allows your team's ultimate to chain in your seal, so AoE team + Amumu is an OP team.

• This ability does not stop channelling ability, so don't hope to use it VS Katarina, Nunu & Willump or Fiddlesticks while they use ultimates.
• This ability should not be used to catch 1 enemy, except that enemy is fed and/or have snowball items( Mejai's Soulstealer).
• Use Flash and Bandage Toss to position this ulti to hit as much enemies as possible.
• If you are going to lose the game, force teamfight and use this ultimate, you can easily turn the tides of the game and win.

• :500 Health, 80 AP, Slow effect - This item is beast for Amumu. It gives you a lot of bulk, AP for your abilities and GIVES YOU SLOWING TEARS!!!!!! It has amazing synergy with Abyssal Mask because you can deal more damage near the enemies.
  
• : 70 AP, 57 Magic resist, Reduce MR by 20
  - This item is great in that it gives you both Magic Resist (always good for a tank) and flat magic resist reduction to your enemies. I say that the magic resist from the Scepter is too good to pass up. In addition, Abyssal Scepter greatly helps out a magic-damage heavy team.
  
• : 45 Armor, 450 Heath, 35 MDPS - This will speed jungling up greatly, as well as giving you needed bulk. If you're up against a team consisting of mainly magic damage users, you may want to get the Giant's Belt before the Chain Vest. This item synergizes extremely well with your Despair, and it is considered core on every AP Amumu ever.
  
• : 25 MR, 2 Enhanced MS, 35 Tenacity - are the boots you should get almost every game. They give you decent magic resistance, which is great since you don't get any MR items early game, as well as reducing most CCs by a significant amount. These are basically the best boots for a functioning Amumu to have.
  
• : 375 Health and Mana, 50 MR, Spell shield - It is a great item all around for blocking spells from any source. The extra mana will improve your staying power without the Golem buff, and you'll also love those 2-3 levels you spend jungling after having bought Catalyst. If you find yourself taking a pounding from magic hits, you can get Negatron Cloak before Catalyst.
  
• : 99 Armor, 500 mana, -20% AS aura, 20% CDR The cooldown reduction combined with the Golem buff brings you well over the 40% CDR cap. The extra mana lets you spam spells longer without relying on the Golem. Finally, you get 99 extra armor, which is always fantastic against physical DPS.

Amumu is a very strong, tanky initiator for a team. His ability to turn a teamfight around is nearly unprecedented. His bandage toss also allows a lot of room for skill in juking and locking down a target. While he isn't the best at deflecting someone in his house, he is a late game dominator and will win many teamfights with his ultimate.

After Patch 1.0.0.131, jungling Amumu is really good considering the new jungle changes. With this patch, there are no longer superior jungle, because it got annihilated with that patch. And now, my dear readers, I present to you the real Amumu jungle path to level 4 in 4 minutes!

This is another image for zoomed-up hookings. Updated 11 December 2011.

Solo Top:

He is one of the gods of solo top. High sustainability and great farm. In teamfight he can drop hie The Equalizer across enemy's team and then flamethrower 1 target to death.

Wow, the prince of solo top. High damage, great sustainability and tanky like Amumu. His ulti combined with you will make all the enemies cry "WTF? Why I cannot move?"

Riven is very effective solo top, because she has no costs and she also is a very good farmer. Her AoE jumps will ensure that your ultimate is useful. She also scales to late game very nice like Amumu.



Mid:

IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR!!!!! Just QER and then PENTA. (LOL what a rhyme)She needs to be able to land her skills which can be made easier by using your ulti. She rocks mid game where you are also strong. My teammates also mained Lux too, and his skill for her is godlike, winning most of the time when paired with Amumu. He can also protect her squishy *** through the fires and flames!

His cage + your ultimate = win. His Dark Matter is hard to land in normal circumstances, but your ulti will guarantee the 1-hit KO meteor. Your ultimate is very good for him to land the full combo without wasting the Event Horizon.

Yes, your yordle fellow who is also known as the King of AoE His ulti plus yours = perma stun in teamfights and he love tanky teammates, so he don't have to buy much survivabilitiy items for maximize damage. Good with poking also with his Thundering Shuriken. Overall a very strong pick.

New yordle cousin with his awesome shark! He has high AoE damage along with superpower burst. His chum the water is great when combined with your ultimate, which guarantees the shark/ killer whale/ whatever can hit bunch of enemies.

Have you seen my bear Tibbers? Yes, I have. Seen it a while ago when Amumu use his ulti and Annie dropped tibbers down in the middle of them, then I heard something like "PENTAKILL"??? not sure what is happening, but now Annie and Amumu are going out for a lunch.

Your utli will make his landing of Lay Waste so much easier, and give him time to place a good Wall of Pain. After your team's godlike teamight, you will ace them with Requiem most of the time, since Karthus is a strong DPS mage.



Bot-Ranged DPS:

Your ulti combined with her Bullet Time will evaporate at least 50% of their health, and she have good mobility for chasing and cleaning up after the main teamfight.

Yuss, double stunning ultimate! Ashe is a great kiter, but somehow she is so squishy, you are the perfect teammate of her. just one Bandage Toss can start Ashe's reign of permaslow.

Strong %based damage like you, has a positioning stun which can mess with their channel abilities. Your Bandage Toss will allow her to use Condemn better and kill faster.

He is very tough ranged DPS, which many calls OP. He is even better when he uses his smokescreen with your ulti and use his Collateral Damage to blow their carries better from your snare.

Corki excels at Missile Barrage poking and armor reduction from Gatling Gun. That will decrease enemy's defense both armor and MR from your passive. He have good teamfight capabilities from poking, harassing and phosphorous bomb.



Bot-support

She will make your life so easier. You will definitely love her Crescendo as it synchronizes perfectly with your ulti. She also heals you and gives you some nice Armor and MR. Perfect support.

This gay can stun enemies, reduce their armor, and make other mates fights with Radiance. You combine Bandage Toss with his Dazzle and you will get nice 4-5 sec stun. when you are low health, ghe will Imbue you for 400-500 heal. You will love him!

He is the very useful grandpa that uses time bombs. Your ultimate will let him land a lot of his nuclear bomb. Having him means you dont need Guardian Angel, cause his ulti is even better. He also have revival & haste skills.



Worst enemies


YOU.WILL.HATE.HER. When you use your Curse of the Sad Mummy and your team initiates, she will Monsoon your teams away and and use her big amount of cc on you. You need your team to use gap-closers after she uses ulti.

DARKNESSSSSSSS. "your carries have been slain". Yes, even you used Curse of the Sad Mummy, he will jump on your carry and rape him like no tomorrow. Try to assign a bodyguard on your carry with CC to protect him.

You Bandage Toss in, he Headbutt you out before you even use ulti. Bunch of CC's and 8 second near-invicibility. Can get out of your ultimate too.

Her Black Shield will rape your ultimate and you cannot gank her due to it. She is very resilient and have a powerful ultimate.

He has a lot of jumps to dodge your Bandage Toss and when you can go in the teamfight, he will IKEEE!! KICK you out.

She have annoying Rocket Jump that will make her hard to gank, and she have Buster Shot to push you out of the teamfight.

---

Why you gonna be the leader?

In honest truth, if you want to win and gain respect from your team, you need to be the leader. People love to be follower because it is easier and requires less skill. Amumu can be the leader, because he can change the face of the entire game by himself, requires lots of skill to use, and is a very solid champion. If you take the hardest role on people will more often than not listen to you and if you're making the right calls then you'll be winning more than not.

How to be a good Amumu leader?

First, you have to completely know about the summoner's rift.

This map is edited by me to show main objectives and advantageous zones. For amumu, the most advantageous objectives are dragon and baron teamfights, since his ulti can be used at full potential. Another important thing is to have teamfights in the jungle and not lane, since he has some problems with tower tanking and initiating in lane, unlike Rammus or Leona.



Early game is important for Amumu to get over, because he has to deal with difficult gankings before level 6 and also weak base stats. Main point of early game is to glide to level 6 and get 2 GP5 items and boots. The successful gank is the main goal of early game.


Early game, Amumu is very blue buff dependent. He is also a weak escaper and duelist in early levels. If the enemy come in 5 to blue it is GG no re, so you have to coordinate with your team to guard and scout for ganks. If the ganks is incoming, you have 2 choices.
-If your team have advantage, get your first blood.
-If your team is at disadvantage, retreat and you go start at wraiths.


The strongest guarding position is:

• 1 person guard the middle of the river, hiding in bush to scout for ganks.
• 1 person guard the back of the blue camp to prefent flash ganks and buff steal.
• 1 person stay with you in blue bush to protect you from teleward ganks.
• The last person stay at wraiths bush to prevent counter-jungling

Leashing is the process that your team get the aggro of Blue Golem ,so that you can finished it off without losing too much health. Soft leash is done if you get Cloth Armor first, but hard leash is required to start off with Regrowth Pendant.


Counter jungling is the strategy that you (and your team) decides to disrupt the jungling process of your enemy, it have many advantages including slowing down potential ganks from their team, make their jungler do a weird and gimmick mistake, give your team more money and XP, and lastly boost morale for your team and lowering theirs.

There are many methods to counter jungle effectively, here I'll include the specific counter jungle to each champion.

1. Blue-dependent jungler ( Fiddlesticks, Maokai, Shaco, Rammus, Jarvan IV)
These guys is blue dependent because they need much mana early ( Jarvan IV ), and someone needs CDR ( Fiddlesticks) so we can take advantage of this by stealing his blue and force him to lose the blue or you will get First BLood. GOing in 5 and let support ward the back of blue, then you smite steal blue and then your team move in and kill that jungler.

2."I need level 6!" junglers ( Warwick, Nocturne, Skarner, Malphite)
These guys don't have a very good ganking ablilities pre-6, if they reaches level 6 it will guarantee that one of your teammates will die or even give away First Blood. This way if you gank blue, it will gives nothing if they decides to 5v5, because these champs have strong dueling early game even without blue. The best way to counter jungle is to take his wraiths and golems so that it delays the step to the doom level 6 by about 2 minute. Remember to leave 1 wraith/golem in the camp, since they will not respawn if all of them are not killed.

3.DangerRed junglers ( Olaf, Master Yi, Tryndamere, Xin Zhao)
These guy's *** to fight after they got red, or so-called perma-slow. If they don't have red, it will be very difficult for them to execute a successful gank. The most efficient way to counter jungle is to ward their red camp and flash steal AND kill them. If they are forced out of the buff or got killed, it is your team's time to take their red! Be careful that, after you killed their jungler, you might me 3-man (mid + bot) ganked, but usually you will even win those fights because of the newly acquired red buff.

4.Counter junglers and non-buff dependents ( Udyr, Lee Sin, Riven, Trundle, Shaco)
These guys are pain in an *** to deal with, because they have cheap camp steal skills and high damage and CC potential early game. The main way to fight them is to let your support CV and ward your jungle so that you will not be killed. If they decide to counter jungle you too much, go counter jugnle them and watch them in confusion that where have you been.


Usually in a good match where your lanes are farming peacefully, the first blood will not happen until after 5-8 minute in the game. If you follow this guide, your team will get first bloods more than all 8th grade students combined (LOL!). First blood is easy for amumu once he got his Curse of the Sad Mummy and (optional)blue buff + full health/mana.

The step is:

• If they are not overextending, be telling your teammate to slowly retreat (remove the lane)
• Flash if they are in middle of the lane, otherwise run to them.
• Curse of the Sad Mummy
• When your curse is going to end, use your Bandage Toss to the target to stun them for 1-2 seconds more.
• If you have, apply your red buff to them to slow them. use your Despair all the time, spam Tantrum.
• ......
• FIRST BLOOD! This pretty much sums up the entire step. If you are going to die, retreat, your dead is not worth their first blood.

Your mid game is usually begins once you have stopped jungling full-time and come to help pushing and killing in lanes. Amumu start his OP mode in mid game, where he can use his ultimate to kill more than 1 person.


He is the most coveted objectives in mid game, because killing him gives your team 1000G ahead of your enemy and also give some good EXP. Since you cannot solo dragon, your team MUST ward dragon all times until your team is ready to do it. The optimal time to do dragon and not get ganked is:

1.If there is 1 enemy down mid or bottom, group as 4 or 5 and do dragon

2.If there is 2 enemies top, have 1 ally defend top and group as 4 and do dragon.

3.If bottom is or mid has 2 or more people at 1/2 or less hit points. Have your low hp people back immediately regroup and dragon.

4.Their jungler / carry is bottom lane, we can force a dragon fight.

5.Double killed at bot and jungle. Good time to dragon since they no more have smite to steal your dragon.

Basically save smite for securing in case that enemy want to steal yours. After you got dragon go with your team and gank mid/bot as 4 or 5.


Getting turret early give you more map control, and then also 750 gold for your team. Taking turret means you usually have to dispose their laners first, or force them to defense tower 3v1 or 4v1. They will run away like Superman running from Kryptonite. If they don't go, dive as 4 and kill them.

The best opportunity to take turrets is when your team have successfully ganked and killed 1 or 2 laners, or you have advantage in numbers.




Late game is where Amumu shine the most. He essentially get all his 3 Deathly Hallows and become unstoppable tank with unreal damage. During late game, stop farming and move together as a team. Have map awareness and focus on teamfights and baiting.


The most important objective late game. It gives your team 1500 gold and superhuman buff to your team, along with around 1000 EXP. Your team should be warding baron all the time. WHen you go to slay the beast, ward the back and entrances to the baron, so that enemy cannot steal it.

Usually the time to do baron is when your team Aces or have significant champion advantage over enemy. Steal their baron at any costs when you're sure you can do it. Even if you die, you will become team leader in their opinion immidiately because of the great sacrifice and hard work.


These 2 things are the pinnacle of late game strategy of Amumu. You must get oracles to see if your enemy warded or not. If they ward, ignore their ward and pretend like nothing ever there. Do your baron/dragon as usual and you will get one for free, because all enemy players know the true terror of teamfighting amumu in baron/dragon pool or jungle.
Amumu take epic monster by breeze, because of his high percentage damage and natural tankiness VS monsters. He should be the one tanking baron/dragon all time unless one of your teammate have Thornmail and 3000 health or more.





After baron or dragon, you should now capitalize on sieging their base. Taking down inhibitors is important for leading the game. Why?

Becuase:
1. The super minions surged their base make your push much more strong.
2.It limits the choice of the enemies to defending against the super minions and pushing, since they cannot leave the base.
3.It gives your team option to do more objectives because their team is contained in the base.

So the best thing to do after inhibs, is to kill another 2 inhibs too, and 12 super minions will enter their base in 1 min! That is too much for mages/support to kill them. You can push along with these super minions and gain a swift victory.


As the leader all you want to be looking for is every advantage you can take for your team. Capitalize on every mistake the other team makes by taking towers, dragons, buffs, inhibs. If they mess up, PUNISH THEM, while also being conservative because biting off more than you can chew is a bad thing. Don't go for baron AND an inhib, that's just greedy, take one or the other, then use your new found map control to force the other one into your favor. Slow and steady wins the race I find when I lead. Take all the advantages you can get while also being cautious not to lose your current advantage because coming back when your behind is a lot harder then staying ahead by not making silly mistakes.

Go for a final push when all of your teammates have full health. Pierce their base through the inhib, nexus turrets, kill everything in sight, finally at the nexus. KIll it fast, becuase it can regen the health very quickly. If you can kill nexus fast without dying...........

This section has been added as an update to the guide. It contains some notes and measures on how to counter Amumu. Now, this may hurt some Amumu play, but then again, even Amumu players should read this in order to patch up weaknesses they may have, or in exploiting others.

The below is a listing of the options you can implement to help you counter Amumu, with a bit of my notes and experiences mixed in.

Counter Jungling

One of the most essential things Amumu need early games is level 4 and Blue Buffs. Level 4 is the level Amumu can start ganking without halting the jungle. Stealing double golems or wraiths make hsi jungle upset for a lot. Stealing blue is even better, it cripples Amumu's jungling and mana sustainability. Stealing blue is easy, just let support CV their blue, then go in and focus Amumua nd squishies or weak early game champs. Amumu cannot recovers effectively, so you can force him in a lane, the place that will send him straight to hell.

Smart Wardings

Since Amumu cannot gank from very far distances like Nocturne or Twisted Fate, he must run to the lane to close the gap for Bandage Toss. Warding the river bushes is a very good idea for countering him. Warding enemies jungle entrance and exit is also very effective, since some greedy Amumu might tend to counter jungling his enemy, but the fact that Amumu is a weak early 1v1 fighter and counter-jungler will kill him in their jungle. Warding blue is the best thing you can do ever.

Pick Harassers/Pokers

Amumu don't have self sustain from pokes unlike dr.mundo. In teamfights these pokers can stay far in the back and won't let Amumu use ultimate on them. The best pokers to counter Amumu is Lux, beacuse her Light Binding stops amumu from running into their team and she also have slow. Her magic damage is high while Amumu is a bit hard to invest in Magic resist, so use her. Ironically Lux is my brother's favorite character. :)

Teamfight Positioning

Without a doubt, the best way to **** up Amumu in teamfights. Fights when minions are nearby or pushing, so Bandage Toss is ton harder to use. Stay out of the fight and try to not stick together, so his ultimate will be much less effective. Don't focus him unless needed. If he come in and hesitate to use ultimate, use repositioning skliis to blow him out of the fight. EG Headbutt, Monsoon, Buster Shot, Explosive Cask, ETC.
Or try silencing champs, such as Cho'Gath or Kassadin. Try your best luck against the King of Teamfight!

Pick right items

Don't stack health VS Amumu. His Despair will tear through your 5 Warmog's Armor like a 6000K Heated knife through butter. Instead, stack Magic resist will reduce lots of his damage. The best item is Banshee's Veil, it can negate his ultimate and gives a lot of MR, health and mana. Buy one today!

Best solution..... Ban him!

The best way to stop amumu if you are out of wit is just ban him. It is not a strange desicion, since he was a perma-ban champ class since beta. His ultimate and tankiness would be very useful for a team, the team with Amumu will win against team without one. If your team have a chance to ban Amumu, do it!



If there are any more suggestions to counter Amumu, tell me. I'll consider it and add it if possible.

Amumu in dominion is, we could categorize him, and some other champs, as taker-initiators. Amumu as a solo-taker isn't very good, he can't do fast bursty damage, and the one defending will be very resistant in most cases. But if he goes with another champion, he can withstand lots of damage and stun everyone and constantly deal AoE damage to all those ones next to him. Amumu with his HP% damage is a very useful anti-tank, and should always be next to another taker -> captured ~

gg

Pros + With takers, can take a CP instantly with utlimate. + Very bulky with right items. + Can absorb all damage to your carry. + Become an excellent defender with his tears and increased mana regen.

gg

space

Cons - Move slow, hence the Boots of Swiftness. - Weak early game 1v1. - Terrible damage at dominion. - Cannot become an effective disrupter due to his slow MS.

Frequently Asked Questions

*Your question here.

-My answer here.

*Why I don't take Rod of Ages?

Simply, because it is slow to charge and it slow down your time for getting your three deathly hallows (Core Items). Also it's not so useful for amumu which Rylai's Crystal Scepter is so better to rush it.

*Should he jungle from blue first?

Of cause, why not! The reason I don't take that route here is, you need a goodleash on your golem, which is hard for people to do in normal and solo queue. Also you might have to recall if something go wrong at double golems, which actually happens to me in a normal game.

You NEED to take that route if they have a strong counter jungler, EG Shaco or Warwick. You will be blue stolen if you use my route, and you will be a pile of useless OOM mummy.

*Why Amumu doesn't lane?

There is a reason, anything that junglers can do better should be done in the jungle. Amumu have excellent leveling in the jungle, along with unlimited mana from blue buff. You also have very strong ganks throughout the laning phase.

What laning Amumu can do?

• Get harassed constantly by ranged champions.
• Out of mana so quickly.
• Cannot land Bandage Toss efficiently since you have no element of surprise.
• Bad farming, weak 2v2 fights and terrible AA early game.
• ETC.... a lot that I can't list them all.[/color]

Most player hates laning Amumu and I'm also the one. It destroys all the purpose of usefulness and full farming. Go jungle Amumu!

*Why don't you get Madred's Razors? I thought all melee junglers should get it.

Realize that your primary source of damage comes not from your autoattacks, but from the magic damage inflicted by Despair and Tantrum. You don't need Madred's Razors because it won't contribute that much damage, and both of the items it builds into are not suitable for Amumu.

* Banshee's Veil or Force of Nature?

Well, my build included Banshee's Veil because it gives your needed bulk and decent MR, most importantly it gives you A FREAKING SPELL SHIELD. You cannot initiate while being stun and constantly suppressed by enemies, so Banshee's Veil is Amumu's best friend.

However, Force of Nature is still awesome! You need to take this item when they have fed AP carry instead of Banshee's Veil. The extra MS synchronizes perfectly with your slowing tears. Use it when they have little to no CC.

*Why his jungling feels too easy to be disrupted with the amounts of Lee Sins, Udyrs, Skarners, Trundles, etc of nowadays.

Amumu should not be picked all times if you find yourself VS these champions. They will counter jungle and kill him like no tomorrow. You just play your superior jungler to beat those guys. Communication and clairvoyance are your best friends.

*How often is amumu banned in your ranked games?

About 20-35% of all bans. Usually in draft solo queue, people are too underestimating amumu, and think rammus are more worth a ban. He is usually second or third picked, sincethe first pick should be Mages.

*Why you are named 6poolhater?

Because the first day that I play sc2, I go 4v4 and finds myself versus 4 randoms. Then we scouted like 1 minute late and 6 pools from all 4 enemy roflstomp us. I swear my teammates are in practice league.

The first thanks is for Acemio, o0 Loading 0o, Banelings oh, LAFVIRUS and all my friends who help me make the guide and play with me for researches.

The second is for Zemaizas, Freddy Shopan, Rys Aberdeen and Hanaho for providing me with useful informations to make an excellent guide.

The third is for Riot Games, for creating a really good and addicting game.

The fourth is for JhoiJhoi (****) , who have motivated me to create this Amumu guide and become Number one amumu. She lends her linerShe is selfless and kind, always help me when I have problems, and gained respect from our Mobafire Community. I'm really glad I met her.

The last and the most important is for my Father, Mother and my Aunt. They help me for grammar, attitude, emotion control, morality, and corrections for my fault. I'm really grateful to them and I wish I can return the gratitude somedays.

There are many inspirations I take from, but the most important is from LoL wiki and mobafire. Thanks!

Finally, thanks to Don't feed channel!
Play Video

The End, GG WP