In this guide I want to show you my way of playing Amumu. In my opinion Amumu is one of the best tanks in the game. He has good disables, with Bandage Toss and Curse of the Sad Mummy, and powerful AoE skills ( Tantrum and Despair ). He can win 1 vs. 1 situations (vs. strong AD champions like Xin Zhao ) and can turn the entire game with well-placed ultimates in teamfights. But he can also clean minion waves very fast with his AoE skills and a Sunfire Aegis.

All in all Amumu is an all-rounder who can disable, cleans minion waves, can tank very good and deals still damage.

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Pros + Great Initiator + Really Tanky + Nice AoE Damage & Disables + Good escape mechanism

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Cons - Often banned in Ranked Games - Need to aim very good for Bandage Toss - Runs out of mana very fast - Maybe some early game problems

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I play with normal 0/21/9 masteries to get some armor, MR, HP and speed. It´s not much, but better than nothing.

In this chapter I want to tell you something about runes for Amumu.

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Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: My preferred marks for Amumu. They give some extra starting damage (magic penetration) for your skills and they are primary. Greater Mark of Armor: Give you some starting armor, but not very much. For armor you have your Greater Seal of Armor. Only secondary marks. Greater Mark of Magic Resist: Same thing: Give you some starting MR, but not very much. For MR you have your Greater Glyph of Magic Resist. Only secondary marks.

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Greater Seal of Armor: Standard tank seals. Makes Amumu stronger in the early game. Greater Seal of Defense: Armor per level isn't bad, but I think the early armor from the Greater Seal of Armor is much better, if you play on a lane. Greater Seal of Endurance: Not much bonus HP, because only 4.5%. Not recommend.

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Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: The best runes for a lane Amumu. 13 MR is much in the early game and can help you vs. casters. Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: Really good runes, but you are on the lane. You need MR from the beginning and not per level. I prefer Greater Glyph of Magic Resist over Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist.

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Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed: Gives you 4.5% extra Movement speed. Together with your masteries you have 9.5% extra Movement speed. My preferred Quintessences. Greater Quintessence of Health: Really good Quintessences. 78 HP are a nice amount of starting HP. Good choice. Greater Quintessence of Armor: The Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed and the Greater Quintessence of Health are much better than this, because these Quintessences works vs. every kind of champion (not only AD).

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Short range teleport to your mouse cursor. It's a really good summoner spell for every champion. You can teleport you over the wall to escape or to jump in the teamfight. It can be used offensive and defensive. In my opinion almost a duty pick.

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Slows the enemy movement and attack speed. This summoner spell is very useful. You can slow the AD carry of the enemy team or somebody who tries to kill you.

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Teleport you to an ally minion or turret. Useful to save turrets. Why not?

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Deals true damage over time. It can used to pick up kill from an running champion or counter high lifesteal. But you have already your Bandage Toss to kill running champions. It´s your decision.

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Gives you 27% movement speed for 10 seconds and you ignore collisions. If you need to run away it can be useful, but I prefer flash.

Cursed Touch: Autoattacks reduce the target's magic resistance
This passive is more for the AP Amumu but it isn't bad. It's useful if you are with an AP on lane.




Bandage Toss (Q): Amumu pulls himself to an enemy and stuns the enemy.
One of Amumu's best abilities. Bandage Toss is not easy to hit, because it's a skillshot. It can be used to catch an enemy or to escape with a jump over a wall.

• Aim in the enemy's direction to catch a running champion.
• It can be used defensive too. Toss it to a neutral/enemy monster to escape over a wall.
• Do a bandage juke. Amumu Bandage Juke
• Use your Bandage Toss to bring you in the right position for your ultimate.
  If you are good you can stun the whole team with one ultimate.
• Bandage Toss interrupt channelling abilities like Absolute Zero from Nunu & Willump or
  Ace in the Hole from Caitlyn.

Despair (W): AoE damage to nearby units (every second a percentage of their life).
This is your AoE ability to kill high health champions (like Vladimir or Dr. Mundo). Just activate it and see her life disappear.

• Don't have this ability permanently active because it's mana intensive.
  Use it only if you fight.
• Kill champions who try to escape with this ability and Tantrum
• You can easily do Dragon with Despair, Tantrum and a Sunfire Aegis.
• Activate it if you try to escape.

Tantrum (E): Reduce the damage you take (passive) and deals damage to surrounding units.
This is a really nice ability. You can farm a wave of 20-30 minions in a really short time; because each time Amumu is hit the cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds. You can spam it very often because the mana costs are the same on every level.

• Use it if you are focussed, because of the cooldown reduction.
• Very nice farming tool for Amumu.
• Let the minions focus you to use the skill often if you want to push a lane.

Curse of the Sad Mummy (R): Snares surrounding units for 2 seconds and deals damage.
In my opinion is this ultimate one of the best in the whole game. With the 2 seconds snare you can turn the entire game to your favour. 2 seconds where your team can take down the enemy carry and win the teamfight easily. The only disadvantage is that is has a high cooldown. Use this ability only in teamfights and not for single targets.

• Bring you in the right position for the ultimate with Bandage Toss or Flash.
• Use it as counter vs. high life steal ( Sion). He can't heal his team and himself if he is snared.
• Don't waste it vs. single targets.
• In opposition to Bandage Toss your ultimate doesn't stop channelling abilities.

You put one point in Bandage Toss at level 1 and max it last. One point in Despair at level 2 and one point in Tantrum at level 3 to harass the enemy champions in your lane and get a kill. After that you max Despair first and Tantrum second. Your ultimate at level 6, 11 and 16. A alternative is to max Tantrum before Despair.

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25 MR, 35% Tenacity You will buy these boots almost every game. Together with your masteries you have 45% tenacity. It means all CCs will reduced by 45 % (2 seconds snares will work only 1 second (circa)). Best boots you can buy.

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18 Armor, 270 Health, 24 MR (Aura: Gives nearby allied Champions 12 Armor, 15 MR, 8 Damage) This item improves all your defensive stats. It's a really nice start item vs. balanced teams. Your teammates get also improved MR, armor and damage. A nice item for a tank.

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50 MR, 375 Health and Mana (Passive: Blocks one negative spell every 45 seconds) One of the best items vs. AP Champions like LeBlanc. The shield blocks spells and they can't start a combo to kill you fast. Additional it gives you some MR and life to become more tanky.

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45 Armor, 450 Health (Passive: 45 Magic DPS to nearby enemies) This is your Anti-AD item (like Banshee's Veil vs. AP). The HP and the armor are necessary for a tank and the passive works great with your Despair.

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1270 Health, 40 HP5 With this item you will be almost unkillable, because you get so much HP. Together with your other items you should get 4000 HP. This is an amazing item.

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68 Armor, 38 MR (Passive: Revives your champion with 750 Health and 375 Mana (5 minutes cooldown)) If everyone thinks you are dead, you will be revived. This item is like Zilean's Chronoshift and it gives you some MR and armor too. Nobody can kill you!!!

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25 Armor (Passive: Reduces the damage taken from non-turret basic attacks by 10%) This boots are the only alternative to Mercury's Treads. If you play vs. a team with few CCs you can buy these boots. Nice item vs. AD champions.

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100 Armor (Passive: Returns 30% of the damage taken from auto attacks) If in the enemy team are strong AD champions like Vayne or Master Yi who are feeded buy these item to protect you from their attacks. They will kill themselves and die fast (In my opinion 2000 Gold are too cheap).

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350 Health, 75 Armor, 25 HP5, 5% CDR (Passive: 20% chance to slow the attacker's attack and movement speed by 35%) Like Thornmail a nice item vs. strong AD champions. Buy that if the enemies have a high attack speed.

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76 MR, 40 HP5, 8% Movement Speed (Passive: Restores 0.35% of your maximum health every second) This item is a good alternative to Banshee's Veil because it gives you 8% Movement speed and 76 MR. Together with the speed from the Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed, Initiator and Swiftness you are the fastest little mummy in the world.

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99 Armor, 500 Mana (Passive: Reduces the Attack Speed of nearby enemies by 20%) A really good Anti-AD item, which gives you armor, mana and slows the attack speed of the enemies. Buy these vs. feeded ADs.

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500 Health, 80 AP (Passive: Your spells slow enemies movement speed) An AP item which works great with Despair. If you think you don't deal enough damage with your spells and you are tanky enough buy Rylai's Crystal Scepter.

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Philosopher's Stone

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18 HP5, 8 Mana Regeneration per 5 sec (Passive: 5 Gold every 10 sec) If you have some problems with your mana buy these in the early game. It allows you to spam your skills more often.

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Philosopher's Stone

Amumu can do solo and duo lane but I prefer him at a duo lane. Why? He doesn't need as much farm as an Irelia and has better laning on a duo lane. He does kills easier with a partner like Shaco who can do a maximum of damage in a short time.

Try to last hit the minions which your partner doesn't get. If you need to push a group of minions from your tower just activate Despair and Tantrum. But remember don't do that too often because you need your mana for kills and have a low mana pool.

You start with a Doran's Shield which allows you to stay longer in the lane. Stay in the lane as long as you can and if you reach level 6 you get your ulti. Now you can do easy kills vs. two champions. Do a kill or go back to buy something.

Buy Boots and if you play on your lane vs. hard ADs buy a Chain Vest, vs. hard APs buy a Negatron Cloak. Buy some wards for Dragon and your bush.





Try to ward some of these places.


Image: Making A Guide Warding information's Warding helper - More than your eyes can see


This is where you and your team should Sight Ward.

• Yellow: Vital to protect the jungler on your team
• Blue: Prevent ganking on lanes
• Red: To guard Dragon and Baron
• Orange: Counter-jungle wards to steal Red/Blue Buff

At this point you should always have your Boots and a defensive item. If you don't have trouble in your lane try to help other lanes with a gank. But ask every time your lane partner whether you can go for a gank. Try to get an early dragon for a gold advantage.

Now have a look at the map at every time. If some people are missing play defensive and have a look at Dragon/Baron. If your team moves together use your ulti vs. a big group of champions to get some kills. But have a eye on your tower.

• Try to ward Dragon/Baron.
  
• Build a early Chain Vest vs. someone like Ashe, a Negatron Cloark vs. Heimerdinger.
  
• Try to hit Bandage Toss almost every time.
  
• Snare as much champions as you can with Curse of the Sad Mummy. Positionate you with Flash and Bandage Toss.
  
• You are the tank. You are the guy who goes first in the teamfight.

Amumu has an OP ulti with a 2 seconds snare. His skills are not easy to master. You have really great escape mechanism and it's funny to escape with a bandage juke.

I hope this guide helped you to understand how to play Amumu as a full tank.

A big thanks to jhoijhoi whose guide explained very good How to make a Guide.

If you have some questions about my guide just ask me in the comments.

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