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Amumu - the Indestructable Jungler






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Spells:
Flash
Smite
Ability Order
Cursed Touch (PASSIVE)
Amumu Passive Ability
Introduction
This guide is pretty straight forward, the items linked in the cheat sheet is what I think are some (note: some) of the core items for Amumu, the Sad Mummy. This lil' fellah is my favorite tank and I will in this guide try and elighten you in perhaps another way to play Amumu than what you're used to.
So here goes nothing!
PROS
Awesome initiater
Well timed ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight
Deals a fair amount of damage
Needs to be focused to go down
Build in escape artist if fighting in woods/near a creep wave
Great at tanking creep waves/turrets
Decent CC
CONS
Will drop dead if focused in a team fight*
No particular survivabilty abilities
VERY dependent on ultimate
No escape artist if fighting in the open/cleared woods
No taunt ability
*) While being easy to down if not insanely well geared is a bad thing, people focusing a tank in team fight are normally ******ed** and this actually leaves more time for your team mates to nuke. All in all, it's better that you're dead with a **** score than your entire team being dead and you running away because it's 5v1.
**) While this is generally true.. Amumu does deal quite a bit of damage, thus early/mid game smart people tends to destroy him.
It has a good amount of base hp (tanks are squishy early game so I like to have an extra 78 hp, because frankly, it makes a bigger difference than one might think), Magic Res/level, Armor/level and flat Spell Penetration. The reason why I chose


One could i.e. swap the


The reason why I've picked runes which increase pr. level instead of flat out armor/magic res should go without too much explaining. Early game I'm pretty much hiding in the woods/initating ganks, thus I don't need A LOT of armor/magic res to begin with.. I'll need that mid/end game when we're fighting for glory.
But isn't 0 points in

Perhaps... :p
If you're the only jungler this is not a problem as you can steal the golem buff from the other team, thus there's minimal downtime.
If the enemy team has a jungler too.. yeah, your buff runs out fast and unless you can kill the enemy jungler you might end up mana starve if you're doing nothing but ganking, but that is imo the only downside of this jungle build.
Alternate, you sacrifice


What other ways can I tweak the mastery tree in?
For ranked play, where you can tell by the enemy setup that you'll be getting a lot of mana (situational items to be explained later), I'd swap 1 point from Hardened Skin and 2 points from


I'd NEVER go 4/4 in




Movement speed items will be listed at the bottom of this section.




Items to pick vs. HEAVY AD carry:







The reason why I skip


Items to pick vs. HEAVY AP carry:








Now, the optimal setup is obviously a mix of both Magic Res and Armor, but in some rare cases you might fight a team with little to no AD or AP. Keep in mind there's no 'perfect' tank build, it all depends on your team and the enemy team
Other fun and more or less useful items:
Disclaimer: You're not a mage and these should only be used in rare cases/if you want to have fun. Don't ruin the game for others by building something too stupid, please.. I don't want to be hated, because you "got it from some guide". :(




Movement speed:
You may wonder why I'm using











*) Regarding Summoner Spells. I decided not to make a section on the topic.




1) Golem. You spec into




2) Wolves. Turn off



3) Wraiths. Same rotation, stand in the middle of the Wraiths and pop


4) Lizard. Pop



5) Twin Golems. Same thing.. Despair, Tantrum and a health potion... You should now be level 4! 1 Point in


6) Ward your mid laner if they have an enemy jungler. A ward placed in the bush is better than one placed next to it, because you can spot people in the bush too then!
7) You can now pretty much take down the jungle without



8) If the enemy team doesn't have a jungler - go take their Golem buff while waiting for yours to respawn. Warding the enemy one can be quite smart too, it's a good way to initiate a gank on someone busy taking down the golem.
9) While Amumu is a great jungler, he's no

So.. I'm level 4 right, how do I gank?
You run out to a lane and hides in the bush, making sure they havn't warded it by asking your lanes. If it's clear, you stand at the edge of the bush with


Once you hit level 6, this becomes even easier (bandage tossing in behind the enemies, pop despair in the air, pop ulti, spam tantrum, stop tantruming so your laners can get the kill unless they're too far away and GZ double kill to you.. lol).
Basically, you're available for gank from level 4+.
Because I in this build havn't specced

As a tank, your role is to ensure the survivability of your team by increasing your own... Really. That makes no sense, ok... What I'm trying to say is. If you initate a team fight, you die, but your team is victories. You're doing what you're supposed to do. You should not be running around with a score like 8/2/5 when your Akali has 0/8/13. Infact, whenever I get a kill on a tank I feel sort of guilty... Because I really don't need it and I often end up appologizing, lol (unless I kill someone who wouldn't of died anyways).
I've seen people flame me for running around with 2/8/28 in a ranked game, and honestly. That's a pretty good score for a tank. Yeah, I might have died 8 times. But if my team has 30 kills+ that means they're staying alive and that's all that counts really.
Okay, this is getting cheesy.. Bottom line is: You're not a carry, get used to not having a positive score. Dying is always bad, but if it ensures your team a victory.. you go die!
While I enjoy typing loads of text I'd love some feedback how to improve. So please, don't hold back! :)
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