Talk:Amumu/Strategy/@comment-4996845-20121208163528

This page requires a massive overhaul. The new items introduced in s3 make building him into an AP bruiser suprisingly strong and hard to deal with. His stopping power in cc and damage are incredible, topping off at permanent 45% slow and 10%maxhp per sec (!) aoe damage respectively, popping spellshields and whatnot. The build I use for this end follows these lines:

- Spirit of the Spectral Wraith - with Amu's damage boost the spellvamp is insane, enough so to make him perfectly capable of 1v1ing most AD junglers or soloing Dragon at lvl 8-9 (blue provided). Into late game it's capable of sustaining him throughout teamfights with incredible ease.

- Boots of Swiftness with Alacrity or Furor enchantments: With these and Rylais, Amumu becomes ulteriorly hard to peel off the enemy carry.

- Sunfire + Abyssal + Rylai's - Pretty much core items for Amu, providing him with a lot of tankiness and a good deal of damage and cc.

- Liandry's Torment - This is what adds the true "oomph" to this build. A little health and mpen is always nice, but it's the passive which makes it worthwhile. With Rylai's permanent slow, the damage is 10% of target's maxhp over 3 seconds, however the trick is that the first tick of this damage (around 1,5%, considering the reduction for DoT and AoE spells) is applied whenever damage is actually dealt, meaning that Despair on its own deals (2,7% flat + 3% from AP + 1,5% from Liandry's) around 7% maxhp each second. Let's add a damage boost from negative MR (quite easily achieved when hitting an ADC with the reduction from Amu's innate and Abyssal) and a 1,5% dealt with each Tantrum for a capability of reaching 10% maxHP per second.

Now, if that isn't enough, substitute Sunfire (the damage boosts his early jungle speed significantly, but drops off hard late) with Randuin's to become extra tanky or an Iceborn Gauntlet for a permanent AoE 45% slow. Mercs instead of BoS would make him truly unstoppable, cc or not while subbing WotA for SotSW would add a dash of support for your APC.