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.
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
The Amumu Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xayah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xayah helps Amumu perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is paired with Xayah, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Xayah provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Xayah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xayah.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Xayah on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Xayah does a poor job of covering Amumu during team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Amumu that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Xayah is a relatively poor teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, she decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Amumu and Xayah that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Xayah has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you should be careful when enlisting Xayah allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Amumu and Xayah together, you may not be providing your other allies much AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to work well with Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Amumu and Xayah synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Xayah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Amumu players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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