Kog'Maw vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Kog'Maw
based on 1,020 Kog'Maw vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Kog'Maw vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats shown here feature some significant Kog'Maw versus Tristana matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tristana..
Kog'Maw typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Tristana
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Tristana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually fairs equally well when playing against Tristana, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Kog'Maw makes an ok counter for Tristana.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower win rate than Tristana, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kog'Maw into Tristana.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Tristana matchups, Tristana is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a somewhat poor counter to Tristana. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kog'Maw in order to counter Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tristana. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kog'Maw versus Tristana build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Tristana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 49.8% battling Tristana with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Tristana as Kog'Maw, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Kog'Maw vs Tristana LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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