Elise vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Elise
based on 197 Elise vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Kog'Maw
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Elise in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several important Elise against Kog'Maw matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, showing that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kog'Maw..
Elise often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Kog'Maw. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Elise or Kog'Maw?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when trying to fight Kog'Maw, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a poor counter to Kog'Maw.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Kog'Mawas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter for Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Elise against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kog'Maw. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Elise versus Kog'Maw build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Kog'Maw than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 48.2% battling Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Kog'Maw as Elise, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Elise vs Kog'Maw matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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