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Amumu's Passive Makes No Sense!

Battleforge4Life·1/18/2015, 6:08:44 AM·6 votes·876 views

Q - CC single enemy W - Damage AOE E - Damage AOE R - CC and Damage AOE

With someone whose entire kit is build are AOE gameplay, why is his passive build around killing a single enemy?

For those who aren't aware; Amumu's passive lowers the MR of the unit he is auto attacking. If you play Amumu tank then this is just a weird passive, but if you play AP Amumu which while not the best scaling is loads of fun, this really doesn't make much sense.

I propose applying the MR lowering to whoever was damaged by Amumu's SPELLS. Perhaps tweak the numbers to be fair. It just doesn't make sense as it stands.

7 Comments

Duke of Sloths1/18/2015, 6:22:18 AM1 votes

Allow me to introduce you to Fiddle's passive:

"Dealing magic damage or casting Terrify applies Dread to enemies for 2.5 seconds, reducing their magic resistance by 10."

Now here's Amumu's:

Amumu's basic attacks reduce their target's magic resistance by 15 / 20 / 25 for 3 seconds. This debuff refreshes with every basic attack.

If Amumu's was stacked on abilities, he would just have a better Fiddle passive. And that's why Amumu's cant apply on abilities. His passive is strong but still increadibly boring :T

UberAffe1/18/2015, 6:32:31 AM1 votes

Given that all of his abilities revolve around being surrounded by enemies I think it would make more sense if he gained some kind of stats based on number of enemies(neutral monsters?) hit by his abilities in the last ___ seconds

Done251/18/2015, 7:11:59 AM1 votes

It served two roles.

  1. Increases his damage against a single target. (Like say, the enemy Marksman or a big jungle monster.)
  2. Helps "mark" them as something for his Mage buddies to attack.

Bonus: Fid's was nerf/changed so that the passive aura wouldn't ruin his ganks while he's hiding in a bush.

junglerboy161/18/2015, 2:29:56 PM1 votes

It is a perfect passive for him. If it were AOE, then he would be ridiculously OP, and this allows him to have potent ganks and help his team focus an enemy carry. Don't ask for a change.

DoraTheBrown1/19/2015, 1:48:39 AM1 votes

use dfg with ap amumu, kill a single enemy with dfg ult e