Soraka vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Soraka
based on 2,085 Soraka vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Amumu
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Soraka in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Soraka versus Amumu counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Soraka normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Amumu. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Soraka and Amumu
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Who is Better, Soraka or Amumu?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Soraka usually fairs equally well when playing against Amumu, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Soraka makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Soraka does have a higher win rate than Amumu, when on opposite teams, Soraka also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Amumu.
Furthermore, Soraka also has a very large amount of utility and CC, 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 Soraka vs Amumu matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Soraka is a decent counter for Amumu. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Soraka against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Soraka to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Amumu. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Soraka versus Amumu build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Amumu than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Soraka had an average winrate of 50.1% when countering Amumu with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Amumu as Soraka, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Soraka vs Amumu clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Soraka are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.