Orianna vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Orianna
based on 436 Orianna vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Core Orianna Items
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Kog'Maw
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important Orianna versus Kog'Maw matchup stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kog'Maw..
Orianna often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Orianna and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Orianna or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when facing off against Kog'Maw, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Orianna makes a bad counter for Kog'Maw.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate than Kog'Maw, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Orianna into Kog'Mawas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Orianna also has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Orianna is a bad counter for Kog'Maw. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Kog'Maw.
Other Champion Matchups Against Orianna
Additional Information for Orianna Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Orianna to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kog'Maw. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Orianna versus Kog'Maw build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Kog'Maw than with most other common builds. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Kog'Maw as Orianna, Orianna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Orianna vs Kog'Maw matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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