The Curse of the Sad Mummy in the Jungle. (Amumu Jg Discussion)

Kaiseray··2 votes·1,112 views

How is Amumu jg still considered meta? I have literally never seen it work, and I've had annie jg(and other nonmeta junglers) be more helpful as a jungler. They always almost never seem to gank, and have little to no presence the entire game(Meanwhile annie's late game factor works nicely with preventing the enemy from pushing and even forcing the enemy to defend primarily in their base.) So I raise the question, should amumu really be considered useful Jungle meta anymore rendering his role there obsolete. Because in my experience Amumu Junglers always play like their role there is obsolete and are struggling to stay relevant in games. I often find myself begging people to not go amumu jg because deep down I feel like that guarantees our loss. And it is often the same story, their lack of presence ganking makes one of the lanes week and vulnerable and the enemy jungler seized that opportunity and pushes through a lane making that lane lose early. The last time I had seen an amumu jungler unfortunately, I was in this victim lane, the whole game I was signalling the amumu to gank or help in some way and nothing at all, the worst part was their jungler was a Galio and I was an unfortunate tiny master of evil against a very skilled Lux who knew the range game.

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leonthefirefly1 votes

Its not a problem with amumu its a problem with carry jgler. The jgl simply gives to much exp and gold and the camps take longer to respawn: => jgler with fast clear gain more oportunity to gank => they snowball harder actual the 90% games are decided at the first 15 minutes (thats my feeling) and amumu seju or any other tank jgler needs to powerfarm till lvl 6 for real good ganks till this time you can gank 4 times with a vi/ lee.

Kaiseray1 votes

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Its not a problem with amumu its a problem with carry jgler. The jgl simply gives to much exp and gold and the camps take longer to respawn: => jgler with fast clear gain more oportunity to gank => they snowball harder actual the 90% games are decided at the first 15 minutes (thats my feeling) and amumu seju or any other tank jgler needs to powerfarm till lvl 6 for real good ganks till this time you can gank 4 times with a vi/ lee.

Which is probably why I've seen more ganks from an Annie jg because once she has her ult her clear time is quadrupled, freeing her to be able to gank frequently. While as amumu has a slower clear time? Well I learned something.

SchmidttyGames1 votes

Amumu has awesome engage potential with his Q and his ultimate is still one of the most devastating on the rift. At lower elos, where people run around in clusters, Amumu can utterly pulverize an entire team before they even realize he's there. Not many champions can hard engage as well as the sad mummy, and he can do it from the fog of war and over walls.

In the right hands, Amumu can be a bloody menace.

Kaiseray1 votes

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Amumu has awesome engage potential with his Q and his ultimate is still one of the most devastating on the rift. At lower elos, where people run around in clusters, Amumu can utterly pulverize an entire team before they even realize he's there. Not many champions can hard engage as well as the sad mummy, and he can do it from the fog of war and over walls.

In the right hands, Amumu can be a bloody menace.

Can be but I've never seen one. And I'm in one of those low elos rn. Have you ever seen one?

SchmidttyGames1 votes

You should start seeing more of them with the latest jungle nerfs to exp and buffs to the raptor camp. Amumu's AOE clearing makes him far more viable now than he has been recently. Also, he can effectively gank at L2 with his Q. It's just generally smarter not to take that chance.

When you run into a good Amumu, you'll know it. A bandage comes flying out of nowhere and suddenly you're either dead or running for your life. Or he simply appears during a team-fight and chunks a third of your entire teams health while stunning everyone for 2 seconds as the rest of his team waltzes over and pulverizes you.

However, he isn't a 100-0 killer. He saps you over time with Cinderhulk and his W and E, so he'll always be less popular than the more flashy (and less depressed) junglers out there.

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