How to win the jungle race as Kindred against Amumu · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Kindred's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Amumu.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Kindred Dominant | Dance of Arrows kiting beats melee kits that can't close the gap. Later in the game this bites, because a Bandage Toss stun into Tantrum spam wears you down inside his Despair aura. But before either of you has a second camp down none of it is online, so take the level-1 crossing and tax every camp Amumu concedes. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Kindred Dominant | Wolf's Frenzy plus Q resets let you skirmish from untouchable range, while Bandage Toss is their gank tool, not a duel-winner. Only one of those wins on the second camp, so press it: take the level-2 skirmish, then leave with the second buff and the tempo that comes with it. |
| Level 3 Route | Kindred Dominant | With three dashes banked you kite backwards and win every disengage fight. Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers, and as the first scuttle timer lands that is not an answer. Take the level-3 river fight and make Amumu path away from the camps you want. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Kindred 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 | Lamb's Respite Favoured | Lamb's Respite un-loses fights — take aggressive duels knowing the floor is undeath. Amumu's six is not empty — a Bandage Toss into the AoE Curse locks you down for the full follow-up. Take the duel from even health rather than from behind, and the engage is two dodgeable skill-shots — respect the angle, not the mummy. |
| First Item Spike | Kraken Slayer / Terminus Spike | Completing your core marksman component grants an explosive physical damage acceleration loop that completely changes your brawling thresholds. Your clear velocity scales heavily, allowing you to secure rapid solo neutral pit takes before Amumu can establish paths. Use this priority window to force aggressive counter-jungle invades or capture remaining marks. 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 | Kindred Favoured — Wins Late | Amumu falls off relative to you — from two items on you win the raw stat check, even though he is a Curse-and-run engager whose value is the ultimate, not the duel. Drag the game long and force the 1v1s. |
Start your clearing path at the Blue Buff camp to secure optimal ability haste looping across your starting single-target nodes before clearing down into the scuttle crab side. 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 Kindred's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Kindred 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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Kindred's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows — Kindred holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Kindred's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows, so Amumu is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
Kindred takes Press the Attack on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace, and Domination secondary (Sudden Impact and Treasure Hunter) vs Amumu.
Start Gustwalker Hatchling + Health Potion and back for Noonquiver / Recurve Bow — path toward the next mark on the back. Build Kraken Slayer / Terminus first, then Blade of the Ruined King / Runaan's Hurricane, with Berserker's Greaves.
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