Anyone else think Amumu is becoming problematic again?

Miirik·Apr 9, 2015·4 votes·751 views

Lately I been seeing him just dominate, even among the tank junglers. I hardly see them build "tank" anymore, they just stack HP and AP then walk in and bomb, soloing other tanks at their leisure and then get so fed they hop on any other character solo and eat them.

4 Comments

TeemoJenkinsApr 9, 20153 votes

Amumu was always good, people just forgot about him because he wasn't FotM for a while. Cinderhulk absolutely helps get him going. Good Amumu's can carry, that's why he was banned the majority of S3

IndorfinApr 9, 20151 votes

The meta always adjusts to compensate. If Amumu gets more popular, I predict champs like Nunu, Udyr and Shaco will also rise up in popularity since they can bully him out of his jungle early on. I don't think that Amumu's too strong, he's just not really being dealt with right; tanks and supports need to put an emphasis on hitting him with randuins and other cc to keep him off of your back line.

ChessburgerApr 9, 20151 votes

I used to be forced to play a game of cat and mouse (me being the mouse) in the early jungle when playing tank junglers. Constantly being on edge and constantly predicting the enemy jungler's moves.

Right now people have forgotten how to deal with tank junglers early. I can walk around with 50% hp and not be punished for it. My thought process is still "crap I'm a goner if enemy jungle shows up when I try to do the next camp." but they never do.

People have devolved into either cheesing early or aimlessly running into the jungle without forethought of where exactly the jungler might be in what kind of condition. Back in the days (s1/2) people had certain timers in their head for each possible jungle route and tried to predict which route the enemy had chosen and decided to invade when the jungler would be at his weakest in a certain route. That and avoiding that was one of the biggest make or break jungle skill factors. There were others important ones as well but that seemed the most important. You also saw people play a lot of different jungle styles which are lacking right now partly because of how riot set the entire system of jungling up.