League of Legends veterans know Amumu and what he can do at low elo. While a popular choice in the jjungle, with tools to initiate and survive in teamfights, he falls off too much at higher ranks, barely seeing any play.
Jeevun Sidhu, Lead Game Designer for League of Legends, took to social media to discuss Amumu. Unlike other characters, the buff coming for Amumu is for a single ability only: Bandage Toss (Q).
Amumu's main engage tool, the changes will see a drop in overall strength, but a major change to this key tool.
"Our goals here are to make Amumu better in higher MMRs, as his current performance disparity is very large," explains Sidhu. "Tl;dr - he has 2 Q charges, and we pulled power out of other places."
So there we have it, Amumu will have even more engage tools, instead of being a one-and-done wombo-combo type of jungler. Do you agree with the change?
Planned Amumu Changes
If the new Q is approved, it will be pushed to the live servers on August 25 as part of the Patch11.17.
In addition to buffs, nerfs, and champion balance changes, there are a number of new skins on the horizon
Damage: 70/100/130/160/190
Recharge time: 14 seconds
Mana Cost: 30/35/40/45/50
Cooldown: 3 seconds
[New] Now has two charges.
Stuns enemies for 1 second.
Base Damage: 12/16/20/24/28
Damage dealt per tick has increased to [6/8/10/12/14 + 0.5/0.575/0.65/0.725/0.8% (+0.25% per 100 AP) of target’s maximum health]
Mana Cost: 100/150/200
Cooldown: 150/125/100
Damage: 150/250/350
Stuns enemies for 1.5 seconds and applies Curse.
Changes for Amumu are tentative and available in League of Legends PBE cycle 11.17.
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