Rakan vs Amumu Counter Pick

Amumu’s engage is one skillshot, and Rakan exists to make skillshots miss. Only 106 games on patch 16.13.1 support the 55.7% result in his favour, so treat it as a lean rather than a verdict, but the mechanical logic behind it is clean.

• Bandage Toss stuns and pulls Amumu to the target, yet it has to connect first. Battle Dance flies Rakan to an ally and can be re-cast free of charge shortly after, giving him two positions of freedom against one projectile.
• Grand Entrance knocks up on arrival, so Rakan can answer an engage with an engage instead of waiting to be caught.
• Fey Feathers shields him periodically, softening the chip from Despair, which burns a share of maximum health every second.
• Both champions deal magic damage, and Cursed Touch converts part of incoming magic damage into true damage, so magic resist will not fully cover the bot side.

Range is the other lever, 300 units against 125. Amumu is the bulkier champion at level one with 685 health to 610, but he ends at 101 armor and 2283 health, below Rakan’s 113.3 and 2293, and both move at 335. Tantrum permanently reduces the physical damage he takes, which counts for little against a magic damage profile. Difficulty ratings are 5 and 3. The rest of his kit is on the Amumu page.