Hey, I'm Aurorae. I'm currently a Platinum ranked player who mains Jungle/ADC and have decided to start making guides and videos to help out the community in whatever way I can. Working on becoming a personality people can look towards for improvement. My goal will be to begin creating a series of guides to highlight key aspects of champions and how to improve on them.

Amumu's rune page is fairly straightforward. As with most AP junglers, you're going to pick up Greater Mark of Attack Speed to help with early clears. For seals you're gonna grab Greater Seal of Scaling Health so you scale nicely as a tank late game. Greater Glyph of Magic Resist and Greater Quintessence of Armor are both utilized to give Amumu much needed early defensive stats for both jungling and combating enemy champions.

For my skill order, I've opted into maxing out Tantrum first, followed by Bandage Toss and then Despair. Finally as always, you want to max out you ultimate Curse of the Sad Mummy every time you can. (Lvls - 6,11,16)

I max out Tantrum first to provide the fastest jungle clear times, and then follow that up with Bandage Toss to get a reduced cooldown and provide more crowd control during team fights. Putting points in Despair doesn't do a whole lot for you, and the ability scales throughout the game even without maxing it out.

Here's a video I've created to detail the different tricks that Amumu can do with his abilities:

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This is my preferred style of clearing the jungle and allows for more organic decision making. If you get stuck farming the whole time, this allows you a nice level 3 back time, with enough gold to make your first purchase. Right after that, you can run straight to whichever camp you left up. This is also a very healthy clear and leaves the option of being able to gank after your last camp. If you choose to attempt a gank, you will have double buffs to assist you on the kill. Also, with this being a healthy clear, it allows you to enter the enemy jungle and steal their camps if the enemy jungler reveals himself for a gank.

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Securing Your Buffs:

Start blue/red and have your top or mid ward the other camp. Immediately after you clear your first buff, run to the other one.

Fastest Level 2:

Start at the raptor camp with Tantrum. The amount of monsters attacking you allows for very quick resets. You can then look to gank mid with Bandage Toss.

Quick Level 2 Gank Start:

Immediately startRed Brambleback, opt in to skilling Bandage Toss and head to your respective side. Blue side head bot/mid. Red side can head top/mid. When approaching the lane, you can either walk through river, or perform a lane gank.

....... *If you feel that your other buff has been stolen, you can look to cross river and steal their buff. Just remember to play around your strong side- where it looks like your laners can assist you. Pay attention to how their laners move when you invade as their jungle could be warded.


Full Clear Route:

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To be honest, there isn't too much difference as far as your jungle route goes between the sides for a full clear. Again, most people start on the side closest to bottom to take advantage of the extra damage they provide.

WARNING *Amumu lacks the dueling pressure a lot of top tier junglers have, therefore, unless you coordinate and let your laners know- you shouldn't invade. Even still, if you choose to opt in to a full clear, you give up all pressure and allow the enemy jungler to make whatever plays they want. This is why I prefer either a level 2 gank start, or a partial clear/back.

Stay proactive! Jungle is a delicate balance between farming (making sure you're relevant) and ganking (making sure your team is relevant). If you're not looking to gank early, whether it be due to the enemy team's laners being really strong, or you're worried about counterganks - do your best to track their jungler. If he makes a play, you should also look to gank (or steal his jungle). Use your intuition with the information that's given to you to alert your laners to possible plays. Even if your ally dies to a gank you pinged out, you at least give them their best shot at survival. As LS says, pinging is a vital skill that's often forgotten - even in challenger. It's your way of influencing the map without having to actually have your champion there. You can't be everywhere at once! Remember, the jungle paths I've presented are guidelines. It's important to go in to a match with a pregame plan but every game will be different. You'll have to learn over time how to react to different scenarios.

Amumu really shines as a team fighter. He's gonna struggle a little bit early on, but after you get Curse of the Sad Mummy, you should be able to take a fight with a well placed ultimate.Dragon is a very important objective, garnering your team vital stats- and you're going to be the main reason your team gets it! If you see their jungle top, and their mid is back... Take Dragon!

Cloud Drake is great for allowing your team to roam around the map. Allows your team to dodge skill shots easier. Non-vital.

Ocean Drake provides a boost in sustain, and is a great boon to your team early on. Helps to prevent against poke compositions. A good drake to pick up on the back end of a positive bottom lane fight/enemy jungle is top. More of a spoils of war type theme to this one.

Mountain Drake gives bonus true damage to objectives, which is an extremely important stat to make sure you maintain objective control. Extremely worth contesting.

Infernal Drake's stat bonus speaks for itself. This buff shouldn't be given over lightly to the enemy team. Allow too many to stack, and there goes your teamfight capability.

Lastly,Elder Dragon providesAspect of the Dragon, increasing all dragon buff's by 50% and adding additional true damage as a burn. This effect only lasts for 2 1/2 minutes, and can be played around if your team can stall well enough. This buff kind of falls off as soon as it's acquired, or at least it feels that way. DO NOT FIGHT an enemy team buffed up with Elder Dragon. ESPECIALLLLLLYYYYY if they have triple Infernal Drake. This is a buff that's used to help close out the game.

Based on the descriptions here, try to prioritize your dragons based on what's happening in the match. And remember- while they are important, for the most part it's not worth losing the game over a dragon.

This objective can win games just as easily as it can throw them.Baron Nashor provides a buff that allows whichever team holds it the ability to close out a game quickly.

I advise a lot of caution when attempting to take Baron. Sometimes you can pick him off with the enemy not expecting it- sometimes your team can be ahead and throw just because of the debuff he applies to everyone attacking him.

A good time when to Baron is if they have no Stealth Wards or Control Wards around and you've gotten an inhibitor with 2 of the enemies dead. Even then, you must always be careful of the enemy jungler pulling of a steal with his Smite, and it becomes even more of a risk if the enemy jungler is higher level than you.

Usually teams prioritize taking the bottom inhibitor to provide cross map pressure and this will allow you to have number advantages when trying to fight Baron.

The core build is just a general guideline for you to follow. Every game will change- and the course of the game HEAVILY influences the way you build.

Amumu's role as a teamfighter is fairly straightforward. You jump in and use Curse of the Sad Mummy on as many people as possible. That's kind of the goal. Just make sure you aren't trying to accomplish this goal like a monkey. (i.e. no team behind you). Apart from landing your ultimate on as many people as possible and crying all over the enemy team/throwing a tantrum... You do have a couple other roles.

As a tank with an on demand cc in the form of Bandage Toss, you have some versatility in what you can try to accomplish in a fight. You can either continue putting pressure on their back line and pick key targets or if the fight looks like it could be lost by their divers getting on your backline, you can focus on peeling. You don't always have to use Curse of the Sad Mummy on as many targets as possible, either. You can hold it for key moments where your Bandage Toss is down and their backline would kill your frontline.