Similar to all other tank builds, it depends on the team.

I think Liandry's Torment is a very strong item but the easiest way to throw a game on a jungler is be greedy and build a damage item. It's kind of like building triforce on Skarner in S2.

Unlike Sejuani who has a lot of different CCs to stick to her target, Amumu only has Q beside his ultimate. With that kind of build you will get kited really hard... unless, of course, you are blowing the enemy team up in 2 seconds because you are already ahead - in which case your item choice really does not matter.

clickrush

Switzerland3257 Posts

January 19 2014 15:17 GMT

#91

ive met alot of dps amumus in soloq at plat. they hit early-midgame really hard but fall off like crazy when they proceeded to build offensive items and just get nuked because amumu has no way of defending himself and needs to stand in the middle of the fight to deal damage.

I suggest to build damage early to snowball and speed up his farm. his ganks and skirmishes are really strong with just a bit of ap and a sunfire (dunno about the new one though). then transition into tank items. even with that transition you get blown up under focus fire but you will survive and continue to deal damage if your carries are threats. with a (almost) only offensive build (example: wraith, sunfire, abysmal, liandry) you are an easy to target high damage threat, so people blow you up.

it is common that amumus hit hard and carry during the midgame and then invest into more offense (such as liandrys, abysmal, even deathcap, rilays) then blow up under focus fire and start to flame in allchat how their team sucks etc. the ones that get away with those builds could have built anything and still won so it doesn't count in my book.

Sufficiency

Canada23833 Posts

January 19 2014 17:50 GMT

#92

I think Sunfire is still fine on Amumu, because as his second item (surely you need Ancient Golem first) he would be like level 11+ already... by then the difference is minor. The nerf is intended for laners who go Sunfire first.

One thing I never tried yet but should try is IBG on Amumu. I am interested to see how that will turn out.

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

January 19 2014 18:06 GMT

#93

IBg is only good with a tank build tho

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

January 19 2014 20:08 GMT

#94

sunfire, abyssal, rylais, and liandrys (less so) aren't tank items?

arb

Noobville17921 Posts

January 19 2014 20:47 GMT

#95

Really you should just be building Sunfire/Abyssal, if youre getting fed Liandrys and Rylais, otherwise i'd rather just build pure tank personally

Sufficiency

Canada23833 Posts

January 19 2014 20:55 GMT

#96

On January 20 2014 05:08 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
sunfire, abyssal, rylais, and liandrys (less so) aren't tank items?

Sunfire yes, the rest are definitely not tank items.

Take Rylai's, for example. You spend ~3k gold for an item that has only 500 HP on it... how is that efficient for tanking stats?

oZe

Sweden492 Posts

January 21 2014 18:33 GMT

#97

~75% win rate with amumu here. My standard support build: start dorans shield, full build Mercs,sight stone,ascension ,sunfire,abyssal & rylias. Jungling almost everyone good get golem a few get wraith. I usually go ap offtank but you can go full tank. If you go pure dmg you will have problems against people who can press tab

I get sunfire abyssal 100% of the games other items are situational/optional. They just stack nicely with his W. The liandries rylias combo is nasty and provide a lot of health.

As support I go 0 13 17 with mpen armour scaling mr & gold quints. Jungle I go 9 21 0 asp/mpen reds depending on my mood and MS quints. You could probably spec 3 in utility for more MS to have better catch since they moved pen so high in the tree anyway.

Kinda like him better as support. You avoid all the nasty assassination attempts at your red. Seen some people start red just to avoid that. The main problem with amumu is that he gets a lot of bans. You always provide good utility with that ult it's game changing especially in lower elo where people tend to bunch.

entropius

United States1046 Posts

January 22 2014 07:10 GMT

#98

As Amumu jungle you need to decide:

1) How much damage to get
2) What tank items to get

I would never ever get dedicated damage items; the most "offensive" things you should ever get are spectral wraith and liandry's.

If you're expecting to have to carry (i.e. you're getting fed, or you're with people you know are less good than you), build things like abyssal, liandry's, rylai's, and wraith. I find rylai's to be a bit of a waste since two of your spells prevent movement anyway.

Ancient golem is good, but you don't really need the tenacity since you don't really care about most CC anyway. So spectral wraith isn't bad; you can use the AP, for sure, especially in the early stage of the game when you're ganking lanes.

Build Abyssal if two of the three are true:

1) You need to carry
2) They have significant AP threats that might target you
3) You have significant AP threats

Build Liandry's if they have a bunch of high-HP tanks and you find yourself wanting damage.

Build Sunfire every game, usually right after your jungle item. Build Ninja Tabi almost always; only get mobis if you are going to have to carry hard.

The rest of your items should be chosen from: randuin's, frozen heart, spirit visage, locket, banshee's, and maybe rylai's. Get tanky first, then decide if you want damage or not. You are not there to blow people up; you are there to engage, peel, and tank tower hits, and only incidentally apply damage (although you do in fact do quite a lot). If you can't take a bunch of punches then you can't do this.

Complete

United States1864 Posts

January 22 2014 09:08 GMT

#99

I don't really see any point in getting Spectral wraith anymore on amumu after the changes tbh.

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

January 22 2014 17:32 GMT

#100

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