Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
The Amumu Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Amumu sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jarvan IV. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Jarvan IV helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Jarvan IV, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Jarvan IV does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Jarvan IV on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jarvan IV.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Jarvan IV on the same side, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Jarvan IV does a decent job of covering Amumu during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Jarvan IV is a terrible companion for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, he decreases their win rate by -7.2% to 41.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Amumu and Jarvan IV that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Jarvan IV has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players should be careful when lining up Jarvan IV allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Amumu players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Amumu and Jarvan IV together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Jarvan IV ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Amumu to pair well with Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Amumu and Jarvan IV synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Abyssal Mask. When Amumu used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Jarvan IV than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 41.8% helping carry Jarvan IV with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Amumu players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 41.8% win rate overall.
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