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Amumu needs a review

Sproofless·7/22/2017, 5:35:10 PM·2 votes·441 views

Ive recently went into a game as a vayne player, up against a amumu, i have 4 full items he had 3 that were thornmail ( it was already busted ) abyssal mask, and ludens echo. My item build was a infinity edge, stattik shiv, Rapidfire cannon and blade of the ruin king. there was a time when we 1v1'd each other, the only thing he used on me was his ultimate ,e and w, and he insta-killed me, me as a vayne player didn't even get him to half health, which is busted because amumu is a tank and a tank is "Absorbs damage, protect and save teammates" not killing squishy targets and i didn't live long enough to get him to half health, not to mention my kit literally is meant to counter tanks in which it failed. The amumu only built 1 ap item

The Amumu mini-rework you said yourself " we want to make amumu to engage fights and continue to be helpful in it, not for him to engage and run away." You did make him helpful, but you also made to were even the most mobile champion have any way of escape once they are q'd or multi'd.

Please make it to were ether amumu has less damage in his kit or a shorter stun time. Sincerely, Sproofless

2 Comments

Imperial Pandaa7/22/2017, 6:10:37 PM1 votes

So it doesn't look like you built any MR which means you would take a good chunk of damage. Let's go ahead and break this down.

First you have Amumu's Passive which makes enemies take more magic damage, applies through AA and his ult. His W refreshes the duration. Next we have the Abyssal Mask which has an aura that increase magic damage done to enemies. So now you are taking even more magic damage from him.

Third, Luden's Echo. This gives him AP and the passive pop for some more damage.

Thornmail. You already admitted to getting him to hald health which means you attacked him. As you know, thornmail reflects damage back to attackers based on his armor. Did you know that damage is magic damage? So between his passive and the Abyssal Mask you probably hurt yourself a good chunk just for AA him.

Any questions?

Fuh Queue7/22/2017, 6:49:40 PM1 votes

I play alot of Amumu and I can guarantee that he didn't "insta-kill" you with only Ludens as his damage. If he landed his entire combo on you, you'd have roughly 40% HP left which means you could condemn him away and ult to kite him to death. Since he rushed ludens, only thornmail is helping him against you so he would die immediately.

Also if you had an entire item advantage it's fair to assume you were fed, and ahead of him. When I play full AP Amumu I need 5 items complete before I can successfully 1 shot a squishy target without them being able to move. Ludens isn't enough for that.