Best Amumu Build Guide | Runes | Spells | Items in LoL

Amumu jungle is one of the best champions to play in the jungle if you're a League of legends or Wild rift beginner and want to learn how to play without complicating yourself. So, in this guide, we will show you the best Amumu build, runes, spells and much more to master this champion. You may also play Amumu support but this guide is focused on Amumu jungle, however, Amumu build doesn't change too much.

Best Amumu Build

Amumu jungle is an amazing champion who can deal magic damage and hit multiple enemies thanks to his amazing Ultimate ability and his curse of the sad mummy ability. However, if you may be thinking that Amumu build is completely focused on magic damage, then you're wrong, Amumu is an incredible tanky champion and he's focused on getting health, resistance, and armor when buying item build.

The best thing about Amumu, is that he is a great champion for beginners and it's able to deal magic damage to all nearby enemies and apply a huge amount of crowd control during a team fight. Amumu is a tank jungler that can lead his allies to an easy victory, but be careful, Amumu's early game is probably one of the worst in the game.

Best Amumu Runes

Although Amumu build is focused on tanky defensive items, Amumu runes are more focused on earning a lot of health in the late game. So you will need your precision runes as the keystone rune and domination runes with ultimate hunter in order to deal more damage all the whole game. But be careful, Amumu is not the best jungler in the early game of League of Legends, so you will have to escalate, buy items and be patient to kill the epic monsters fast and eliminate your enemies easily.

Best Rune Path	Precision	Domination
Best Keystone	Conqueror
Best Slot 1 (Rune)	Triumph	Cheap Shot
Best Slot 2 (Rune)	Legend Tenacity	Treasure Hunter
Best Slot 3 (Rune)	Last Stand

Best Amumu Rune Shards

For Amumu runes and shards, you may focus your attention into the enemies team composition. But the best option of rune shards for Amumu in League of Legends are one offense attack speed shard, one adaptive force and one for armor. This will help you to increase your damage at the summoner's rift.

Best Rune Shards	Effect
Offense	+10% Attack Speed
Offense	+9 Adaptive Force
Defense	+6 Armor

Best Amumu Summoner's Spells

Amumu's summoner spells will be chosen depending on the enemy team composition and if you play as a jungler or support. However, the most common summoner spells for Amumu are Flash and Ignite. Those are the best summoner spells options to keep Amumu safe in early game to invade and be able to deal true damage to enemy champions.

Best Spells	Icon
Smite
Flash

Best Amumu Abilities Order

The best thing about playing Amumu jungle is that his skill order is really easy to learn. The sad mummy has low ability haste so you can easily spam your abilities to farm, however, his mana usage is too high in the early game. Amumu's skill order begins with his Tantrum (E), then Bandage toss (Q) and lastly Despair (W). Remember you can use bandage toss up to two times after waiting a few seconds before getting it in cooldown, Bandage toss is the most important ability of Amumu to initiate a team fight and apply CC to enemies.

Best Amumu items

After checking the rune set for Amumu, it's time to know a little more about Amumu's best items. Normally, you will want to buy health, magic resistance and armor to receive reduced physical damage and incoming magic damage. So, you may buy these items to increase your win rate for Amumu: Abyssal mask, Randuin's omen, Sunfire aegis, Force of nature, among others.

Best Starter Amumu Items

If you play Amumu jungle, then a Hailblade is a must to kill epic monsters and receive experience. On the other hand, if you play Amumu support then you will need a Relic shield to be able to ward the enemy jungle. Also, buy some health potions to have some lane sustain.

First Item	Second Item
Hailblade	Refillable Potion

Best Mid Game Amumu Items

There are some items that make amumu get an easy power spike, stay alive longer, and use his cursed touch to deal as much damage as possible while his allies help him to defeat enemies. In the mid game, you will be able to use all Amumu's abilities and help your team with this item build: Sunfire aegis, Plated steelcaps, Abyssal mask or Demonic Embrace.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item
Sunfire Aegis	Demonic Embrace	Plated Steelcaps

Best Final Late Game Amumu Items

In the late game, you will want to take advantage of all the power of the curse of the sad mummy and , if you followed our skill order advice, then the best late game item build is this: Sunfire aegis, Plated steelcaps, Randuin's omen, Thornmail, Frozen heart and Demonic Embrace.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item	Fourth Item	Fifth Item	Sixth Item
Sunfire Aegis	Demonic Embrace	Plated Steelcaps	Thornmail	Zhonya's Hourglass	Force of Nature

Best Champions to pair Amumu with

Amumu is a perfect champion to apply CC to enemies, so, the best champions to pair with are those which can give him movement speed or can create an amazing CC chain to hunt enemies. Champions such as Kalista, Sivir, Ziggs and Karthus are a great pair for Amumu Jungle to hunt the enemy team and burst them easily. If you like this kind of champion, you can take a look at our guide about the best Qiyana build in League of Legends.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Ziggs	57%
Karthus	55%
Sivir	54%

Strongest Champions against Amumu

Hecarim, Kayn, and Shyvana are the main Amumu counters and champions you have to avoid in order to have an easy game. Amumu is so weak against high healing champions or champions which can survive long trades. Many Amumu players' stats are so bad when playing against those champions. As support, you must avoid Taric and Renata Glasc.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Hecarim	39%
Kayn	40%
Shyvana	45%

Weakest Champions against Amumu

Vi, Gragas and Warwick are champions which have given the highest win rate to Amumu, the curse of the sad mummy is an amazing option against champions which can't survive against a huge amount of CC. So, if you want to use the curse of the sad mummy and Amumu, you can do it against low mobility champions too. Remember to follow our skill order guide to take advantage of Amumu's abilities much more.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Warwick	60%
Vi	58%
Gragas	58%

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