Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Ahri against Kog'Maw matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kog'Maw..
Ahri often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when taking on Kog'Maw, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter to Kog'Maw.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Kog'Maw.
Additionally, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Kog'Maw. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Kog'Maw.
To truly master Ahri to counter Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kog'Maw. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ahri versus Kog'Maw build include Everfrost, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Ahri used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Kog'Maw than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Kog'Maw as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Ahri vs Kog'Maw clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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