Gwen vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Gwen
based on 619 Gwen vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gwen vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Gwen vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Gwen
Tips for Playing as Gwen against Kog'Maw
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Gwen in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several influential Gwen versus Kog'Maw counter statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Gwen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gwen may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw..
Gwen often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives more damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gwen and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Gwen or Kog'Maw?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gwen usually loses when trying to fight Kog'Maw, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Gwen makes a bad counter to Kog'Maw.
While Gwen does have a lower win rate than Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Gwen also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Gwen into Kog'Maw.
Moreover, Gwen has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gwen vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Gwen is a bad counter for Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gwen against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gwen to counter Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gwen typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Gwen versus Kog'Maw build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Gwen bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Kog'Maw than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gwen boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kog'Maw as Gwen, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Gwen vs Kog'Maw clashes, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kog'Maw as Gwen are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.