Amumu is an excellent beginner-friendly jungle champion with strong crowd control abilities and team fight potential. His kit includes reliable jungle clear, gap closers, and powerful CC abilities.

Passive - Cursed Touch Amumu's attacks curse enemies, causing them to take additional true damage from magic damage sources, amplifying both his and his team's damage output.

Core Abilities Priority

1. E - Tantrum (Max First)
2. Q - Bandage Toss (Max Second)
3. W - Despair (Max Last) R - Curse of the Sad Mummy (Level at 6, 11, 16)

Early Game Strategy

• Start with W (Despair) for optimal level 1 jungle clear
• Take E at level 2 for damage reduction and AoE clear
• Get Q at level 3 to enable ganking potential

Key Combos

• Buffer R after Q hits to prevent flash escapes
• Q/R Flash combo for surprise engages
• Standard Teamfight Engage: Q > W > R > Flash > E > AA > Q > AA

Core Items

• Starting: Emberknife, Refillable Potion
• Core Build: Sunfire Aegis, Demonic Embrace, Thornmail

Strengths

• Excellent team fight initiation
• Strong mid-game power spike
• Reliable crowd control
• Good scaling into late game

Weaknesses

• Mana intensive
• Vulnerable to early invades
• Weak in 1v1 duels
• Reliant on team follow-up

Team Synergy Works well with champions who can follow up his engages:

• Miss Fortune
• Katarina
• Ornn

Best suited for teams needing a tanky initiator with reliable CC and moderate damage output. Excels in team fight compositions where allies can capitalize on his crowd control abilities.

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