Hi guys this is my first guide please be nice xD. So I was looking through champions and I just fell in love with Amumu. He is a great initiator especially with some AP. The feeling of jumping into a mob then ulting taking soo much of their health away, making them helpless as I slowly do DoT to them all is soo good.

So my guide is designed to lower the enemies Magic Resistance as much as possible and zoning out the ADC. So the main idea is just go into the teamfight, ulti everyone then waddle your way to the ADC, when you are there just try to kill them stunning as much as you can, if they are starting to get annoying use your exhaust on them.

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Like every champ, Amumu has his pros and cons. You should choose Amumu when your in need of a jungler, a good amount of CC and when your ap carry can do lots of burst AoE dmg.

Pros Ult can disrupt the whole team Crazy AoE dmg Can kill other tanks easily with Despair Pretty quick clear time Great ganks

SPACE

Cons Squishy early game High chance of getting counter-jungled Clear time drastically increased if Blue Buff is stolen Can be kited if Bandage Toss misses Slighty more squishy than your average hardcore tanks bacause we are building some AP

Jungle:
Amumu excels mostly in the jungle. He has a quick jungle clear time, can easily clear camps with Tantrum and a great ganker. Although he excels in the jungle, he has a really high chance of getting invaded and counter-jungled, and most ganks fail if you miss your Bandage Toss.

Top Lane:
He is also a pretty good top laner, because he is tanky and can kill off other tanks if they go top lane. Be careful if fighting anyone with true dmg or Armor Pen such as Olaf and Darius. With the top lane build Amumu will be slightly more tanky, and have a stronger early game with his 2 Doran's Rings

Jungle:Top Lane:NOTE FOR LANERS MASTERIES:
I choose not to use Runic Affinity here because normally the jungler or mid lane takes the buffs, But if your pre-made or you know you will get some buffs(jungler/mid energy user, or not a mana user, For example, Lee Sin and Katarina), then feel free to get out of the offensive tree and into the utility tree.

Jungle:
Due to the new leashing, the monster will hit whoever is closest, we get Tantrum first because amumu is melee and atks with his head(because that's op shh).The cd on Tantrum goes down each time Amumu is hit, making a great jungle skill. Then put a point in Despair so that you can have some background dmg. At lvl 4 get Bandage Toss.after that, we start maxing Tantrum because it does burst dmg. Don't start ganking until lvl 4 because that's when we get Bandage Toss. We get it at lvl 4 because to get a successful gank, we need burst dmg from Tantrum to lower the enemies hp. As always get your ult at lvls 6,11 and 16.
Top Lane: I get stun first because normally other top laners underestimate you and try to 1v1 you, use bandage toss to deal burst dmg when they start to escape and secure the first blood, It can also be used to escape. Get E at lvls 2 and 3 for more burst dmg and W at lvl 4 so you can have it before lvl 6. Sometimes when fighting tanky champions you would want to max W before E because it does %hp dmg.

Exhaust is a great summoner spell, if you find yourself in a loss 1v1 battle, just Exhaust them and turn the fight around or escape. Exhaust with Summoner's Wrath will reduce their Armor and Magic Resist by 10, which will definitely help your team.

ALSO, on your level 4 gank, you can Bandage Toss in and exhaust the enemy, or the other way around, practically securing the kill

USE POTIONS WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT HALF HP

- You arrive at the blue buff and protecting your jungle

- Level up your Tantrum

- You receive help from team and kill the blue buff through spamming Tantrum and securing it with Smite

- Level up Despair as you walk to wolves

- Use your skills and kill wolves, then wraiths then double golems. Don't forget to autoattack.

- Walk into the brush near red buff, make sure no enemies are around.

- Level up your Tantrum and start attacking the red buff.

- After killing it's 2 minions lure the red back into the brush and kill it with smite (you do this to make sure no one is trying to counter jungle you)

- Kill the wraiths and then level up your Bandage Toss

- Now you have a few choices and you have about half hp (unless you had really nice people who somehow tanked the blue for you)

*Gank on the lane that you are near (Blue Team = Bot/Mid.Purple Team = Top/Mid.

*kill wolves and gank the lane that you are near (Blue Team = Top/Mid. Purple Team = Bot/Mid)

*kill wolves and counter-jungle

*you can go recall but I don't recommend coming back until you have at least 1050 gold so that you can buy a Philosopher's stone and Boots

Jungle:
First we start off with [Hunter's Machete]] and 5 potions because that is the new jungling item that will increase the speed of jungling. We then get an early Philosopher's Stone for the 5 gold per 10 seconds. Boots because... well... Amumu wants 1 leg to be clean from walking in the brushes all the time. Now, onto the item I never thought I'd use the Doran's Shield. I never noticed it had a passive, or maybe it was put in the last patch(pre-s3 patch), anyway with this awesome passive, Tantrum's passive and your masteries, you reduce 21 dmg from basic atks +3%. So bye bye melee champs. We then buy a Giant's Belt to get look more tanky :P And now You can easily turret dive. Feel free to buy a Ninja Tabi because it blocks 10% dmg off of basic attacks so it would block 21 + 13% dmg basic attacks? Someone please check that.

Top Lane:
First we start off with either a Doran's Shield or boots and 3 pots. Doran's Shield is good against slow or autoatk-based champs. Boots and 3 pots are good when you are against someone with skillshots or a mobile jungler. After that, get 2 Doran's Ring's and then a Giant's Belt(buy boots if you still haven't got them).

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Why not 2 Doran's Rings when jungling? Well while it does boost up your dmg, it can also make you ks a lot of kills, leaving your laner (such as adc) money-hungry (aka. darius syndrome) which can be bad for your team. If you are going for early game win, then feel free to buy this, but if you suspect late game, this item is a no no. But if you are a top laner however, this item will keep your mana up for longer sustain in lane, and can help kill your opponent, you would need extra dmg up top in case you get ganked and still want to fight till the end. Don't get philosopher's stone because you should be efficiently getting cs in lane and some kills.

We sell the Hunter's Machete then Doran's Shield and finally Philosopher's Stone and buy the following in any order:

Your main goal here is to kill off the carry as quick as possible

Teamfights you initiate since you are the tank just toss in then use your ult. Spot the carry, walk to them as their team tries to stop you. Exhaust, then apply your Cursed Touch on them spam your Tantrum thanks to their minions and champions attacking you. Try to make sure they don't escape by using your Bandage Toss. In the first teamfight(most of the time) the ADC will underestimate you and try to 1v1 you. But if you can win that 1v1 they will try to either hardcore focus you or stay far away from you. Be careful if they buy a black cleaver or last whisper though.

There are those games where the teams are more tilted towards AD or AP. Use these items to counter them. For example, in a team with no AP carries you would want to buy a Randuin's Omen or a Thornmail instead of Athene's Unholy Grail.

Replace IBG,AUG or RoA as they are not really core items

I would choose to buy the Enchantment: Captain because... I always find myself in 1v5 situations. This will help your team catch up to you after you have initiated a fight. Also, the tank should always go in first so obviously your team will have to follow you. The second part of the passive is pretty good too. For example, you just had a very gruesome teamfight, everyone is dead except you. You are at very low health, But you decide to push anyway, Thanks to your boots your minions can hurry up and tank the turret so that you can push.

Another good choice would be Enchantment: Homeguard, because it instantly heals you and gives you a movement boost to get straight back into the battle. So you can basically fight someone at your turret get low, recall and run back into battle straight away.

Buy Enchantment: Alacrity if you think Amumu walks to slow for you. A good tip is to Bandage Toss minions if the enemy you are chasing is far away, because late game with this build Bandage Toss has a 4.8sec cd. You could also escape by doing a leap of faith by tossing into the jungle.

BOOTS
Berserker's Greaves because you don't need atkspd.

Sorcerer's Shoes because you are a tank mate, not a hardcore APC unfortunately.

Boots of Swiftness because it doesnt give you another bonus stat, except for giving you a slight movement speed boost. You can change some runes or buy Enchantment: Alacrity if you desperately want a speed boost.

Mobility Boots because well.... it's alright early game for roaming, but if you don't roam a lot then it is basically a waste of gold.

ENCHANTMENTS
Enchantment: Distortion because we don't use Flash, although it it usable with the TOP LANE build, but we already have masteries to lower Flash's CD

Enchantment: Furor because although it seems good for activating your passive repeatedly but after some testing, the autoatk animation is too long for this to work out good and we have Iceborn Gauntlet for that.

I hope you enjoyed my guide and want to use it. I wouldn't call it the best build, but it's my build and that's all I care about. Hope you had fun reading through my guide. I'd like to thank JhoiJhoi for making a guide to teach me how to make a guide (well that's ironic lol)