Talk:Amumu/@comment-24882239-20150517223036/@comment-5068528-20150518211735

just saying what my experiences are m8. Im not advocating holy hand grenade amumu, but tanky amumu with some AP items (usually rylais and abyssal for me). You dont die quickly that way, but you debuff the enemy adc to basically have 0-30 mr, even when they build a qss, so your damage and any followup damage is true damage. In my experience, these 2 alone provide enough damage for you to kill an adc by yourself in the space of a few seconds.

There's only 2 other champs that are compareable to what amumu provides on the basic levels: sejuani and malphite. Both have to use their ults to initiate, amumu uses his Q (yes, sej has a dash, but that is a lot shorter in range). If your initiation fails, you can retry a few seconds later, with sej and malph, you initiate - your R is gone. So argueably, he is the best initator. He can tank adc reasonably well even when building ap bruiser due to his E passive. So either the adc runs away or they risk getting killed by you or your followup team mates, binding 2 or 3 champions to you, leaving your team to do 4v2 or 4v3.