Akshan vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Akshan
based on 551 Akshan vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Kog'Maw
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
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.
Akshan vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Akshan versus Kog'Maw matchup stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw..
Akshan typically has a similar longest killing spree as their counter does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Akshan or Kog'Maw?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually wins when taking on Kog'Maw, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a great counter for Kog'Maw.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Akshan into Kog'Maw.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Kog'Maw matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a great counter for Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan to counter Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Kog'Maw. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akshan versus Kog'Maw build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three items in their build, they did much better when fighting Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 53.4% battling Kog'Maw with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Kog'Maw as Akshan, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Akshan vs Kog'Maw battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.4% winrate overall.
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