Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
The stats shown here clarify several significant Briar versus Amumu matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Briar usually has a much larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Briar usually wins when facing off against Amumu, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a good counter to Amumu.
While Briar does have a higher win rate than Amumu, when they face off with one another, Briar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Briar into Amumu.
Furthermore, Briar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Briar vs Amumu matchups, Briar is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Briar is a decent counter to Amumu. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Amumu.
To truly master Briar to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Amumu. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Briar versus Amumu build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Briar combined at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better versus Amumu than with most other common builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Amumu with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Amumu as Briar, Briar players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Briar vs Amumu face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
If you would like to get Briar versus Amumu tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a an individual division, please select one from the selection menu displayed above. At first, the statistics and guides given are computed using every round finished with both champs.