Kog'Maw vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Kog'Maw
based on 1,421 Kog'Maw vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Master Yi
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Advice to Win Against Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Kog'Maw vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Kog'Maw versus Master Yi matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Master Yi..
Kog'Maw often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Master Yi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Master Yi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when facing off against Master Yi, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes a poor counter to Master Yi.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower winrate than Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Kog'Maw into Master Yi.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kog'Maw is a bad counter to Master Yi. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw in order to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often accumulates much more CS as Master Yi. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kog'Maw versus Master Yi build include Runaan's Hurricane, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Master Yi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 46.2% when countering Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Master Yi as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kog'Maw vs Master Yi counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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