How to win the jungle race as Kha'Zix against Amumu · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Kha'Zix's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Amumu.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Kha'Zix Dominant | Isolation-bonus Taste Their Fear chunks anyone who face-checks alone, while Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers. Only one of those wins at the first buff, so press it: take the level-1 crossing, then leave with a camp and a chunk of their health bar. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Kha'Zix Dominant | Void Spike's heal-poke wins the slow trade war at river entrances. Bandage Toss is their gank tool, not a duel-winner, and with one camp still up on both sides that is not an answer. Take the level-2 skirmish and make Amumu path away from the camps you want. |
| Level 3 Route | Kha'Zix Dominant | Iso Q damage at level 3 already deletes squishier junglers caught solo. There is no version of this Amumu wins right now — Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers, and that folds at the opening scuttle. Show on their side of the river and take the first scuttle and the gank window behind it. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Kha'Zix Dominant — Keep Fighting | Levels 4-5 change nothing: you still win every straight duel vs Amumu, and levels 4-5 are pure gank-hunting for him — a Bandage Toss into any lane with follow-up beats a full clear. Sit in their river, take both scuttles, and tax the camps they concede. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Evolution Favoured | Your first evolution means isolated targets simply die — hunt the side brushes. A Bandage Toss into the AoE Curse locks you down for the full follow-up — respect that one window, but the six-spike comparison favors you: take the post-6 duel whenever HP bars start even. |
| First Item Spike | Umbral Glaive / Eclipse Spike | Umbral Glaive clears the wards that would spot your approach and Eclipse adds a two-hit burst plus a shield, so an Isolated Taste Their Fear (Q) into Leap (E) now deletes squishy targets outright. Camps fall fast enough to clear a full side and still arrive at a lane. Use the spike to hunt lone targets in river and side lanes rather than joining even teamfights. Amumu's first completed item makes Despair and Tantrum clear at real speed and turns his engage into a genuine team-fight threat. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Kha'Zix Favoured at Full Build | Full-build math leans your way: extended fights and side-lane duels favor you over Amumu — make late fights about 1v1s, not coin-flips. |
Start your clear at the Blue Buff node to optimize early ability haste cycling across single-target nodes before executing a clean full clear path down into the scuttle crab. Amumu opens on a buff and clears steadily off Despair and Tantrum, so he is rarely far from his own camps before three.
Ranked by the race windows in Kha'Zix's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Kha'Zix vs Amumu report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Kha'Zix's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows — Kha'Zix holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Kha'Zix's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows, so Amumu is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
Kha'Zix takes Dark Harvest on the Domination tree with Sudden Impact, Grisly Mementos and Ultimate Hunter, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Alacrity) vs Amumu.
Start Scorchclaw Pup + Health Potion and back for Serrated Dirk + Refillable Potion — isolation duels come online. Build Umbral Glaive / Eclipse first, then Edge of Night / Hubris, with Ionian Boots of Lucidity.
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