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Amumu - Come Play With Me! (Jungle Support Tank)

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Brief Introduction to Amumu

Hello, all! This is my second guide on MOBAFire, if you haven't seen my first one, go check it now here!

Now, who is and what does he do? Well, to make long stories short, is a very good team fight initiator with good jungling skills. Below, I will explain to you why is a very good champion(and a cheap one too!).

This is Linear, and welcome to my guide 'Amumu - Come Play with Me!'.

Hall of Amumus

This is the section where you can PM me your match results and I'll put 'em here! With the rest of the players.

Results by me!

Outstanding Pros / Costly Cons

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Pros

+ // Great sustain in jungle.
+ // Strong ganks.
+ // Good team fight initiator.
+ // Snoopeh recommends .

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Cons

- // Very squishy early game.
- // If you miss Q, you'll be yelled.
- // Long cooldowns before 18.
- // Requires good teammates!

Masteries on Amumu

: I like having this with , because if you land this on the enemy ADC, he/she will have a significant amount of damage loss during the duration PLUS a decrease in armor and MR(plus your passive, that's like 25 MR lost at level 1-3 ganks), and by the time it ends, your team would've ended his/her life.

: I went for this mastery for the following reason, deals very little damage in early game jungling. If you think that this is not a good mastery for , you can always take or into consideration. (BTW, I didn't max in my build because it only deals 4 extra damage to minions, and sometimes if my opponent is lucky, they get away with less than 5 health!)

: I like this mastery because it builds into and adds cooldown reduction, as I said before, has pretty long cooldowns.

: I picked this mastery for the magic penetration for , as it deals % of health magic damage to surrounding enemies.

: It's pretty obvious why I picked this, FOR THE EXTRA 10 GOLD PER SMITE! Another viable mastery you can take, other than this, is for extra health regeneration, but it's very little, so I prefer .

: Extra armor early game so I take less damage from jungle creeps!

: Same explanation as , I don't wanna use up all my health potions before I get to red buff.

: The name probably explained why. I want more sustain in the jungle and more durability when I go into team fights. Other viable masteries to take, other than this, is and , both pretty useful! Take it into consideration, which do you think is more important, health or health regeneration?

: Very useful, takes 2+2/4/6/8/10('s passive]]) less damage from every attack, so if someone were to attack you 100 times with 100 AD, you take 200 less damage PLUS the armor you have. Unreplaceable on tanks.

: Adds extra 30 health for early game purposes!

: Another must-need/useful jungling mastery, returns 6 true damage back to monsters, that helps you speed up jungling a whole lot!

: What can I say, is one of the best initiators in the game, why wouldn't you take 3 points in this?

: I'm not exactly sure how I can explain this, I chose to take this because has a long cooldown, but this mastery can also be replaced by or , pick the one that helps you the most.

: Adds good % of health and tenacity.

Runes: Ultimate Early Game!

Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: I chose to have this rune for Amumu for these several reasons, all Amumu's skills are based on AP. Extra magic penetration helps with Despair and Tantrum, which both has a low cooldown.
Greater Seal of Armor: Good armor from seal is always the best! It allows you to have a very strong early game and use less health while jungling.
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: This rune is specially made to counter strong late-game AP carries like Lux, Katarina and Malzahar.
Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed: I really like this rune, it adds movement speed by 4.5%, I like this because since you're jungling Despair does the most damage, and you gotta move fast to catch up to enemies, that's where Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed comes in!

Other Viable Runes

Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: Choose this rune if you have to go against really strong early game AP carries, like Veigar, Mordekaiser and Zyra.
Greater Quintessence of Health: Nothing else to say other than that it gives good health early game like Veteran's Scars .4

Ability Combos & Sequence

Passive: Cursed Touch

A very simple and straightforward passive. You decrease the target's magic resistance by 15/25/35. Useful to you and our AP carry, you should always try to hit the ADC at least once with your auto-attack.

Bandage Toss

Stuns your target for 1 second, in my opinion, that 1 second is very important, it is like 's ultimate team fight initiator starter. Try to practice landing with smart-cast, it saves lots of time!

Despair

Your jungling must-need on , this is the ability that makes a good jungler. It deals % of health magic damage in AoE damage which is very good if enemies decided to focus you in team fights.

Tantrum

This is a very good skill, you take a lot less damage from ADCs because of its passive, taking 2/4/6/8/10 less damage from auto-attacks. As I explained before in , imagine the ADC focuses you dealing 100 AD for 10 hits. You take 120 less damage in total(excluding armor).

Curse of the Sad Mummy

's ultimate, AKA best team fight initiating ability in-game. Always land your ultimate when your team is actually paying attention, because there's always times when you land your combo well, but your teammates are taking smoke breaks.

Preferred Ability Sequence and Combo

Sequence: > >

(Obviously, you add your ultimate at 6,11,16)

Combo: > > Auto-Attack ADC > > > Auto-Attack some more and spam

Early, Core, Late and Situational Game Items

Start Items

OR

There's really only 2 starting items for jungle, either and or and , of course there's also a choice of , go for this if you're very professional at jungling. In my opinion, starting with is the best for , because you have extra sustain in your jungle.

Early Game Items

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The two 5 gold per 10 seconds items that benefit , if you add the amount up you get 10 gold per 10 seconds, which means you get 1+1 gold per second(1 for the default gold gain per 10 second). If you do not gank well in early game, these two items help you catch up on the gold lost.

Core Game Items

As I said in my title, you're half support half tank, and what's a tank without armor? This is where comes in, you might think why not ? Well is pretty good too, but it decrease only 20%, when 's active decreases both movement and attack speed.

Late Game Items

Just finishing up your build, adds both magic resistance and ability power, since you're short on magic resistance and your abilities base on ability power, this item is pretty fantastic. P.S. take the passive into consideration. = more armor, harder to kill.

Situational Items and What to Replace

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, You should acquire this item when you are in need of more health, otherwise, don't go this as a item.

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Do I have to say more? Get this if you're against a really overpowered APC like , and . I replace with because they both add magic resistance, but adds more magic resistance.

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Jungle Route and Spawn Time

Very straightforward map, nothing to explain about it

Ancient Golem (AKA Blue Buff)

Spawn Time: 1:55 (5:00 respawn)

Buff Duration: 2:30 (with Runic Affinity : 3:00)

Lizard Elder (AKA Red Buff)

Spawn Time: 1:55 (5:00 respawn)

Buff Duration: 2:30 (with Runic Affinity : 3:00)

Dragon

Spawn Time: 2:30 (6:00 respawn)

Global Gold: 190 (+25 to killer)

Baron Nashor

Spawn Time: 15:00 (7:00 respawn)

Global Gold: 300

Buff Duration: 4:00 ( Runic Affinity cannot be used)

Difference Between a Good and Bad Jungler

Good Jungler

Ganks often and has 100% map awareness at all times.
Counter-jungles as much as he/she can.
Wards the map for teammates.
Buys Oracle's Elixir

His ganks are usually successful and the kill is given to the ADC/APC. Knows his limits on the summoned champion and range on his skills.

Bad Jungler

Dies even with leash.
Uses all his health potions before wraiths.
Never wards for team.
Initiates team fights for the other team.

Ganks are almost or never successful, doesn't even know the range of his own skills.

Now. Tell me which kind of jungler do you want to be? If you chose good jungler, then follow my build! It'll surely help you get better jungle results with Amumu.

Frequently Asked Questions

NO questions asked right now.

Ending Summary

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