Maokai vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Maokai
based on 1,228 Maokai vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Kog'Maw
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Maokai vs. Kog'Maw matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kog'Maw. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Maokai or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Kog'Maw, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a great counter to Kog'Maw.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Kog'Maw.
Additionally, Maokai also has a very large 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Kog'Maw matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Maokai is a great counter for Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai often picks up a lot less CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Maokai versus Kog'Maw build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Kog'Maw than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 53.3% when playing against Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Kog'Maw as Maokai, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Maokai vs Kog'Maw matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.3% winrate overall.
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