Lux vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Lux
based on 2,984 Lux vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Kog'Maw
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some important Lux versus Kog'Maw matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kog'Maw. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Lux usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Kog'Maw. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Lux or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when taking on Kog'Maw, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Lux makes an ok counter for Kog'Maw.
While Lux does have a higher winrate than Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Kog'Maw.
Furthermore, Lux also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Kog'Maw 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 teammates during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter to Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lux against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux most often picks up less CS as Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Lux versus Kog'Maw build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Lux used at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Kog'Maw than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Kog'Maw as Lux, Lux players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Lux vs Kog'Maw counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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