Katarina vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Katarina
based on 3,034 Katarina vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Amumu
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
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.
Katarina vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Katarina vs. Amumu counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Amumu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Amumu
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Who is Better, Katarina or Amumu?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when taking on Amumu, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Amumu, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Amumuas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets much more CS as Amumu. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot 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 shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Katarina versus Amumu build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Amumu than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing against Amumu with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Amumu as Katarina, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Katarina vs Amumu battles, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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