Jungle Matchup

Amumu vs Nocturne

Patch: 15.24 (25.24)
League: Platinum+
Amumu

Amumu

the Sad Mummy
Jungle
Amumu Jungle Overall Win Rate
52.23%

Matchup Win Rate

45.5%
Amumu vs Nocturne Wins
54.6%
Nocturne vs Amumu Wins
Nocturne

Nocturne

the Eternal Nightmare
Jungle
Nocturne Jungle Overall Win Rate
50.19%

Amumu vs Nocturne - Jungle Matchup Guide Patch 15.24 (25.24)

Amumu Jungle vs Nocturne Jungle - Who is stronger?

Nocturne Jungle counters Amumu hard (45.5% win rate) based on 698 games. This matchup is really difficult for Amumu players.

View detailed statistics below: items, runes, and counter builds for Amumu Jungle vs Nocturne Jungle in patch 15.24 (25.24), including win rates and pick rates. With proper study, this can improve your chances of victory up to 64.5% in this matchup.

Statistical Matchup Analysis

With 3.0% popularity, Amumu constantly encounters meta-dominant Nocturne (3.8%, 20th place out of 63 Jungle champions). Understanding how to play against this popular champion becomes essential for consistent Amumu performance in the current patch. Surprising upset: Despite Amumu's higher tier rating, Nocturne wins 54.6% of encounters. This suggests Nocturne's kit specifically counters Amumu's playstyle, overriding general meta strength - approach this matchup with extra caution. Strong champion, tough matchup: Despite Amumu's impressive 52.2% overall win rate, this specific matchup against Nocturne presents unique challenges requiring focused practice. Every edge matters: In this tough matchup, the proven Aftershock + Font of Life combination (55.9% win rate) plus optimal itemization Liandry's Torment, Abyssal Mask, Sunfire Aegis, and Plated Steelcaps boosts your chances from 45.5% to 64.5% - potentially game-changing.

Farm your way back: Amumu's superior farming (6.26 vs 6.03/min, 25th among Jungle) offers a comeback path. Focus on safe CSing and capitalize on your 0.23 CS/min natural advantage. Outclassed across the board: Nocturne leads in both matchup win rate (54.6%) and damage (661 vs 610/min). Amumu must seek alternative win conditions through macro play and team coordination. Complete dominance by Nocturne: leads in both matchup win rate (54.6%) and KDA (2.70 vs 2.50, 29th vs 41st place). Amumu players need exceptional preparation to overcome this counter-pick.

Amumu vs Nocturne - Jungle Stats Comparison

Amumu Jungle
Amumu Jungle
Versus
Nocturne Jungle
Nocturne Jungle
STierA
45.5%Matchup Winrate54.6%
52.23%Role Winrate50.19%
#2Winrate Rank#30
3.0%Pickrate3.8%
2.5Average KDA2.7
388Gold per Minute428
6.26CS/Min6.03
0.20Wards per Minute0.22
610Damage per Minute661

How to Beat Nocturne as Amumu (Jungle)

Difficult matchup requiring deep understanding of game mechanics and flawless execution. Patience and proper macro play are the keys to victory in this confrontation.

The magic damage that Amumu deals remains relevant in the late game. Look for opportunities to initiate or counter-initiate. Nocturne deals mainly physical damage (84.55%), additional items against this damage type may be required against snowballing or aggressive play.

An important advantage of Amumu is higher farming statistics (ranked 25th among role champions) (versus 33rd for Nocturne), which provides a stable gold advantage in extended games and allows faster access to key items. Meanwhile, their higher KDA (2.7 versus 2.5) suggests they participate more effectively in team fights.

Key aspects of the Amumu Jungle versus Nocturne Jungle matchup

In this difficult confrontation, it is critically important for the Amumu player to avoid attempts to force trades and all-ins with the Nocturne player, as the matchup requires a patient and calculated approach. Extended trades without clear tactical advantage often lead to unfavorable consequences, and ignoring opportunities to receive team support can be a fatal mistake for game progression.

Amumu vs Nocturne: Jungle Summoner Spells

Most Popular

Flash
Flash Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Smite
Smite Deals true damage to a monster or minion.
49.8% Win Rate75.1% Pick Rate

Highest Win Rate

Flash
Flash Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Smite
Smite Deals true damage to a monster or minion.
54.4% Win Rate10.0% Pick Rate

Amumu vs Nocturne: Jungle Runes

Most Frequent Runes

Primary Path
Precision
Conqueror
Conqueror Basic attacks or spells that deal damage to an enemy champion grant 2 stacks of Conqueror for 5s, gaining 1.8-4 Adaptive Force per stack. Stacks up to 12 times. Ranged champions gain only 1 stack per basic attack.

When fully stacked, heal for 8% of the damage you deal to champions (5% for ranged champions).

Conqueror

Basic attacks or spells that deal damage to an enemy champion grant 2 stacks of Conqueror…

Triumph
Triumph Takedowns restore 5% of your missing health, 2.5% of your max health, and grant an additional 20 gold.



'The most dangerous game brings the greatest glory.'
—Noxian Reckoner

Triumph

Takedowns restore 5% of your missing health, 2.5% of your max health, and grant…

Legend: Haste
Legend: Haste Gain 1.5 basic ability haste for every Legend stack (max 10 stacks).

Earn progress toward Legend stacks for every champion takedown, epic monster takedown, large monster kill, and minion kill.

Legend: Haste

Gain 1.5 basic ability haste for every Legend stack (max 10 stacks).Earn progre…

Last Stand
Last Stand Deal 5% - 11% increased damage to champions while you are below 60% health. Max damage gained at 30% health.

Last Stand

Deal 5% - 11% increased damage to champions while you are below 60% health. Max…

Secondary Path
Domination
Cheap Shot
Cheap Shot Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true damage (based on level).

Cooldown: 4s
Activates on damage occurring after the impairment.

Cheap Shot

Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true d…

Ultimate Hunter
Ultimate Hunter Your ultimate gains 6 Ability Haste, plus an additional 5 Ability Haste per Bounty Hunter stack. Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.

Ultimate Hunter

Your ultimate gains 6 Ability Haste, plus an additional 5 Ability Haste per Bou…

Adaptive
Attack Speed
Attack Speed Increases attack speed by 10%

Attack Speed

Increases attack speed by 10%

Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Scaling Health
Scaling Health Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

Scaling Health

Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

49.0% Win Rate56.6% Pick Rate

Best Win Rate Runes

Primary Path
Resolve
Aftershock
Aftershock After immobilizing an enemy champion, increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 35 + 80% of your Bonus Resists for 2.5s. Then explode, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies.

Damage: 25 - 120 (+8% of your bonus health)
Cooldown: 20s

Resistance bonus from Aftershock capped at: 80-150 (based on level)

Aftershock

After immobilizing an enemy champion, increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 35 + 80% of…

Font of Life
Font of Life Impairing the movement of an enemy champion restores @BaseHeal@ Health to you and the lowest health nearby allied champion.

70% effect for Ranged Users.

Cooldown: 20s

Font of Life

Impairing the movement of an enemy champion restores @BaseHeal@ Health to you a…

Bone Plating
Bone Plating After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage.

Duration: 1.5s
Cooldown: 55s

Bone Plating

After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you re…

Unflinching
Unflinching Gain 6 - 12 (level scaling) Armor and Magic Resist when crowd controlled and for 2 seconds after.

Unflinching

Gain 6 - 12 (level scaling) Armor and Magic Resist when crowd controlled and fo…

Secondary Path
Domination
Cheap Shot
Cheap Shot Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true damage (based on level).

Cooldown: 4s
Activates on damage occurring after the impairment.

Cheap Shot

Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true d…

Ultimate Hunter
Ultimate Hunter Your ultimate gains 6 Ability Haste, plus an additional 5 Ability Haste per Bounty Hunter stack. Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.

Ultimate Hunter

Your ultimate gains 6 Ability Haste, plus an additional 5 Ability Haste per Bou…

Adaptive
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Scaling Health
Scaling Health Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

Scaling Health

Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

55.9% Win Rate18.9% Pick Rate

Amumu vs Nocturne: Jungle Item Builds

Most Popular Build

Starting Items
Stealth Ward
Stealth Ward (0 gold) Active (210 - 120s, max 2 charges)
Places an Invisible Stealth Ward that grants vision for 90-120 seconds.
Mosstomper Seedling
Mosstomper Seedling (450 gold) Jungle Companions
Summon a Mosstomper that assists you against monsters.
Mosstomper's Courage
The companion grows as you hunt monsters, empowering your Smite. When fully grown, it grants a shield that regenerates after killing large monsters or out of combat.
Health Potion
Health Potion (50 gold) Consume
Restores 120 Health over 15 seconds.
50.1% Win Rate41.9% Pick Rate
Popular Boots
Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps (1200 gold) 25 Armor
45 Move Speed

Plating
Reduces incoming damage from Attacks by 10%.
50.4% Win Rate49.7% Pick Rate
Mercury's Treads
Mercury's Treads (1250 gold) 20 Magic Resist
45 Move Speed
30% Tenacity

50.8% Win Rate34.6% Pick Rate
Sorcerer's Shoes
Sorcerer's Shoes (1100 gold) 12 Magic Penetration
45 Move Speed

51.1% Win Rate5.0% Pick Rate
Core Build
Fated Ashes
Fated Ashes (900 gold) 30 Ability Power
Inflame
Damaging Abilities deal 15 bonus magic damage over 3 seconds.
Deals an additional 45 magic damage to monsters.
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Liandry's Torment
Liandry's Torment (3000 gold) 70 Ability Power
300 Health

Torment
Damaging Abilities burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage per second for 3 seconds.
Suffering
For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
Sunfire Aegis
Sunfire Aegis (2700 gold) 350 Health
50 Armor
10 Ability Haste

Immolate
After taking or dealing damage, deal magic damage per second to nearby enemies for 3 seconds.
Abyssal Mask
Abyssal Mask (2650 gold) 350 Health
45 Magic Resist
15 Ability Haste

Unmake
Nearby enemy champions take 12% more magic damage.
55.9% Win Rate11.6% Pick Rate
Final Build
Jak'Sho, The Protean
Jak'Sho, The Protean (3200 gold) 350 Health
45 Armor
45 Magic Resist

Voidborn Resilience
After 5 seconds of champion combat, increase your bonus Armor and Magic Resist by 30% until end of combat.
55.5% Win Rate20.0% Pick Rate

Best Win Rate Build

Starting Items
Stealth Ward
Stealth Ward (0 gold) Active (210 - 120s, max 2 charges)
Places an Invisible Stealth Ward that grants vision for 90-120 seconds.
Mosstomper Seedling
Mosstomper Seedling (450 gold) Jungle Companions
Summon a Mosstomper that assists you against monsters.
Mosstomper's Courage
The companion grows as you hunt monsters, empowering your Smite. When fully grown, it grants a shield that regenerates after killing large monsters or out of combat.
55.8% Win Rate7.3% Pick Rate
Highest Winrate Boots
Symbiotic Soles
Symbiotic Soles (900 gold) 40 Move Speed
Voidborn
Gain Empowered Recall.
Symbiosis
After traveling 150000 units of distance, transform into Synchronized Souls.
64.2% Win Rate0.4% Pick Rate
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionian Boots of Lucidity (900 gold) 10 Ability Haste
45 Move Speed

Ionian Insight
Gain 10 Summoner Spell Haste.
55.6% Win Rate2.5% Pick Rate
Sorcerer's Shoes
Sorcerer's Shoes (1100 gold) 12 Magic Penetration
45 Move Speed

51.1% Win Rate5.0% Pick Rate
Core Build
Fated Ashes
Fated Ashes (900 gold) 30 Ability Power
Inflame
Damaging Abilities deal 15 bonus magic damage over 3 seconds.
Deals an additional 45 magic damage to monsters.
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Liandry's Torment
Liandry's Torment (3000 gold) 70 Ability Power
300 Health

Torment
Damaging Abilities burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage per second for 3 seconds.
Suffering
For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
Abyssal Mask
Abyssal Mask (2650 gold) 350 Health
45 Magic Resist
15 Ability Haste

Unmake
Nearby enemy champions take 12% more magic damage.
Sunfire Aegis
Sunfire Aegis (2700 gold) 350 Health
50 Armor
10 Ability Haste

Immolate
After taking or dealing damage, deal magic damage per second to nearby enemies for 3 seconds.
64.5% Win Rate1.8% Pick Rate
Final Build
Bloodletter's Curse
Bloodletter's Curse (2900 gold) 60 Ability Power
350 Health
15 Ability Haste

Vile Decay
Dealing magic damage with abilities or passives to champions reduces their Magic Resist by 5% for 6 seconds, up to 30%.
77.8% Win Rate2.3% Pick Rate
Other Items
Unending Despair
Unending Despair (2800 gold) 400 Health
25 Armor
25 Magic Resist
10 Ability Haste

Anguish
Every 4 seconds while in combat with champions, deal magic damage to nearby enemy champions and heal for 250% of the damage dealt.
60.7% Win Rate11.6% Pick Rate
Thornmail
Thornmail (2450 gold) 150 Health
75 Armor

Thorns
When struck by an Attack, deal magic damage to the attacker and apply 40% Wounds for 3 seconds if they are a champion.
60.4% Win Rate9.5% Pick Rate
Frozen Heart
Frozen Heart (2500 gold) 75 Armor
400 Mana
20 Ability Haste

Winter's Caress
Reduce the Attack Speed of nearby champions by 20%.
58.3% Win Rate8.9% Pick Rate
Randuin's Omen
Randuin's Omen (2700 gold) 350 Health
75 Armor

Resilience
Receive 30% less damage from Critical Strikes.
Humility
Slow nearby enemies by 70% for 2 seconds.
56.2% Win Rate8.1% Pick Rate
Kaenic Rookern
Kaenic Rookern (2900 gold) 400 Health
80 Magic Resist
100% Base Health Regen

Magebane
After not taking magic damage for 15 seconds, gain a magic shield.
60.0% Win Rate6.7% Pick Rate
Zhonya's Hourglass
Zhonya's Hourglass (3250 gold) 105 Ability Power
50 Armor


Time Stop
Enter Stasis for 2.5 seconds.
52.3% Win Rate2.7% Pick Rate
Bloodletter's Curse
Bloodletter's Curse (2900 gold) 60 Ability Power
350 Health
15 Ability Haste

Vile Decay
Dealing magic damage with abilities or passives to champions reduces their Magic Resist by 5% for 6 seconds, up to 30%.
77.8% Win Rate2.3% Pick Rate

Amumu vs Nocturne: Jungle Skill (abilities) Orders

Most Frequent Skill Order

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Q
Bandage Toss Amumu tosses a sticky bandage at a target, stunning and damaging the target while he pulls himself to them.
Q
Q
Q
Q
Q
W
W
Despair Overcome by anguish, nearby enemies lose a percentage of their maximum Health each second and have their Curses refreshed.
W
W
W
W
W
E
E
Tantrum Permanently reduces the physical damage Amumu would take. Amumu can unleash his rage, dealing damage to surrounding enemies. Each time Amumu is hit, the cooldown on Tantrum is reduced.
E
E
E
E
E
R
R
Curse of the Sad Mummy Amumu entangles surrounding enemy units in bandages, applying his Curse, damaging and stunning them.
R
R
R
Max Order: E > Q > W
50.3% Win Rate40.1% Pick Rate

Highest Win % Skill Order

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R
Q
Bandage Toss Amumu tosses a sticky bandage at a target, stunning and damaging the target while he pulls himself to them.
Q
Q
Q
Q
Q
R
W
Despair Overcome by anguish, nearby enemies lose a percentage of their maximum Health each second and have their Curses refreshed.
W
W
W
W
W
R
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Tantrum Permanently reduces the physical damage Amumu would take. Amumu can unleash his rage, dealing damage to surrounding enemies. Each time Amumu is hit, the cooldown on Tantrum is reduced.
E
E
E
E
E
R
R
Curse of the Sad Mummy Amumu entangles surrounding enemy units in bandages, applying his Curse, damaging and stunning them.
R
R
R
Max Order: Q > E > W
70.5% Win Rate1.0% Pick Rate

Amumu tips:

  • Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
  • Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
  • Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.

Playing Against Nocturne

  • Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
  • Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.