I don't even play this champ but eevry time I get one on my team I just want to dodge. There are a lot of off meta picks that are good and I have faith in, but amumu just straight sucks and you are gimping yourself horribly picking him. Gernade amumu use to be a lot of fun but they nerfed his AP ratios a while back into the ground...
MoldOak2 votesHe has a positive winrate in every elo on champion.gg
Barkley1 votesHe has a positive winrate in every elo on champion.gg
Champion.GG consistently lists Aurelion Sol as the best jungle, lists champions as their own best and worst counters, tells you your starting items should be 2 dorans rings, a long sword, and 5 potions, and tells you to run double ghost as the best summoner spells for some champions.
Its a decent site for guidance and ideas, but I'd hardly rely on it for any credible statistical data. The people running it/designing it are pretty clearly idiots. The site is buggy as hell.
Barkley2 votesHey bud. Gold 5 Amumu main here, THOUSANDS of games on Amumu. Love my mummy.
You're absolutely right. He feels terrible right now, and it makes me sadder than the sad mummy himself.
The first thing that really killed him was the nerfs to his W's percentages. Made his clear slower, made his damage less meaningful, made him basically a one-trick ult machine - but his ult was still really great. (still is, kinda)
They also nerfed his AP ratios before that (or after? I can't remember) which made him even worse.
They also changed his ult from being a stun to snare.
They also nerfed a few of his key items, which indirectly nerfed him.
Abyssal mask was good for him, but too little too late.
If I'm not mistaken, at some point they upped the cooldown on his Q, too - but I can't verify that. I think they did, though.
Basically its been nerf after nerf after nerf after nerf, and the sad mummy is in a pretty...well... sad state right now. I think they could probably buff his %health damage on his W back to where it was, or maybe increase his AP ratios (although you shouldn't really be building too much AP on him anyway.)
That or make him tankier. Right now, unless you build absolutely full-tank on him, he's pretty squishy. Building AP on him just makes him a glass cannon CC Nuke. You go in, you blow your load, you die. Building hybrid on him just feels bad, because you're not really doing meaningful damage, and you're also not tanky enough to engage (his main job) so hybrid builds are horrible on him.
So as it stands he's a completely ignorable tank with a decent ultimate at best, or a kamikaze ult machine at worst. Neither of which feel particularly good to play.
Make his E do additional damage to jungle creeps or something, i dont know. I'm not a game designer, and I'm not good with numbers. Something's gotta give, though. I'd love to be able to play my favorite champion again and feel good playing him, and not have my team pursing their lips at me when I lock him in because there are CLEARLY better choices available.
Sad mummy is so, so very sad.
AkitaSaito2 votesSorry to be nitpicky but
{quoted} They also changed his ult from being a stun to snare.
His ult was always a snare though, it was never a stun.
If I'm not mistaken, at some point they upped the cooldown on his Q, too - but I can't verify that. I think they did, though.
His Q's cooldown was never nerfed. In fact, it was actually buffed in patch
V1.0.0.103 Bandage Toss Bandage Toss Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.
and that was the only patch where his Q's cooldown was ever touched.
Barkley1 votesSorry to be nitpicky but
His ult was always a snare though, it was never a stun.
His Q's cooldown was never nerfed. In fact, it was actually buffed in patch
V1.0.0.103 Bandage Toss Bandage Toss Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.
and that was the only patch where his Q's cooldown was ever touched.
As i said, I wasn't sure.
Also. His ult definitely used to be some other form of cc. They changed it. Maybe not a stun. Perhaps a root? Not sure, that was a long time ago. They did something regarding whether you could or could not auto attack during it, or cast movement abilities. I don't remember exactly.
Thanks for the correction on the q buff.
AkitaSaito2 votesHis ult's cc was always the same though. Check his patch history.
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Amumu
The only relevant change was the tool tip clarification in patch
V1.0.0.100
Curse of the Sad Mummy Curse of the Sad Mummy Tooltip corrected to state that enemies are rooted and cannot attack or move.
