Kog'Maw vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Kog'Maw
based on 1,034 Kog'Maw vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Kog'Maw vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats provided here feature several critical Kog'Maw vs. Zed matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed..
Kog'Maw usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Zed
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Zed?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually fairs equally well when playing against Zed, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Kog'Maw makes an ok counter for Zed.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher win rate than Zed, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Zed.
Additionally, Kog'Maw also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Zed matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter to Zed. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kog'Maw against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kog'Maw versus Zed build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Zed than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 50.3% when countering Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Zed 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 picked for Kog'Maw vs Zed LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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