Title. Just now fully noticing his changes. I remember seeing the true damage rubbish but never saw how other changes are being made to facilitate its application.
Edit: Amumu isn't in a terrible spot. Building against AP already feels bad. People are saying Vladimir's ult is problematic, and now this being introduced...These buffs/changes just seem a little unnecessary right now.
New Tool Album8 votesno, he didn't need anything, he is perfectly fine, but riot just loves to break shit around the house every once in awhile*[zombie-brand-facepalm]*
Sun Wu Ryuumoku1 voteshe need it... a pick with a low pick rate and a low win rate is weak... mainly when he's easy to play
Titanium708 votesIf I'm honest - yes. As much as I hate facing a mumy - this little guy was always this Champ you could pick up anytime and get a good game with. His current state doesnt really supoort this.
A 2%Pick, 50% winrate seems to be balanced at first but... such an easy Champ getting only played by mains? And those mains barely scratch a positive winrate with him?
That's not a good sign. He needs some attention - for sure. However, I hope they're carefull. ^^'
IllegalBagel1 votesI don't know why people down voted your post you points were pretty good points. Upvoted :D
Lil Fella 2138 votesYes he did. His pre teamfight is one of the worst in the jungle. He is easy to shut down in the jungle while having poor pre 6 ganks and little objective control.
Mordepool5 votesThey are removing Mr shred from the game so the lethality users can continue to roflstomp the meta
AirKingNeo3 votesNo the change was made so Amumu's passive didn't interfere with the use of Void Staff and to also scale smoother into later stages of the game.
dunder kill13 votesLethality meta has been over for multiple patches now. Where have you been?
Sun Wu Ryuumoku1 votesshhhuuuu... u'll shock him
Troll for Trump7 voteswtf does m pen have to do with lethality?
GULAG 4 U5 votesNothing, obviously.
Bultz4 votesNo he didn't. He needed nerfs if anything.
Mostro Gallo1 votesI remember I went against an AP/off-tank Amumu the other week or so. He got one little snowball and then things got very scary very fast.
If anything, I felt like they would have eventually "nerfed" his passive by facilitating the application process but reducing the amount of MR reduction. Was not expecting these types of buffs at all.
AirKingNeo2 votesDepends, when was the last time you saw Amumu in platnium+?
SweedishGunner1 votesIt's almost like champions can perform differently depending what ELO you're in...
DrCyanide1 votesI'm a mage mid player, which means I'm totally unbiased in this discussion, and he certainly needs this buff :)
/s
I suspect this won't effect squishy champions (who basically take true damage from sorc shoes and void staff anyways) so much as tanks. That creates an interesting situation where Amumu gets more use out of his passive by auto attacking tanks, but is generally more useful CCing/AAing squishier targets.
My Waifu Vanilla1 votesAmumu already did incredibly well against tanks in the first place since his W does A LOT of % max health damage (3%+1% per 100 AP a second is VERY high) on the resist that is typically lower than armor. Amumu is honestly just going to go like Abyssal+Rylais+Liandries and give his team 25% more magic damage while also doing A LOT of damage himself since he also benefits from this change. Grenade Amumu was already a little obnoxious if he went even or, heaven forbid, got ahead and these changes will just make him snowball harder.
Troll for Trump1 votesINb4 "wtf Riot made random uneeded buffs to amumu and now he's tier 1 OP" posts.
But yeah, I think it was a bad idea.
They're experimenting though
FakeGravity1 votesno one ever picked amumu for his passive at all, you never consider having amumu in a team because you had magic damage dealers that benefic from it, now you actually want amumu in a heavy magic damage team because his passive will make the enemies so pointless
SweedishGunner1 votesCombine Amumu with any other source of AoE magic damage and profit.
I had an Amumu on my team earlier when I was playing Viktor. The combo was pretty awesome.
My Waifu Vanilla1 votesExcept the combo you just mentioned was performing at like ~90% since the changes haven't even gone through yet. That's the thing is you are playing a non-buffed champion and stating the combo was already awesome. Throw over 15% more damage on top of it and you can see it will get out of hand.
My Waifu Vanilla1 votesThe thing is they didn't really do anything to "balance out" this change. He will still work just as good with someone like MF (an all physical damage dealer) but will be even more ridiculous with someone like Ziggs, Brand, Zyra, Orianna, etdc.
Chromatic Eagle1 votesI imagine he had a low pick rate, or didn't have a strategic niche. Anything else they can nerf numbers.
Oakleaf Ranger1 votesHe didn't do anything that other champions already do better than he did. Now he has a niche that gives people a reason to pick him over others. I still don't think he going to be good in high elo though because none of the changes did anything to buff his early game. Unless this works on jungle creeps too and makes him jungle faster and healthier?
Oelyk1 votesThey said to Increase his popularity, but I think he needs a VU and some kit changes like ww, cause he's(In my opinion) really unappealing and straight forward. Straight buffs no doubt will create more synergy with AP heavy teams(HI ZIGGS!), but I doubt it will do what Riot intends, all respect for them still.
My hope is that they exterminate pizza feet once and for all in 2017
IllegalBagel1 votesAs a amumu main i'm going to say he did not need buffs at all but clearly when they do stuff like this rito usually releases a skin for that champion