Shaco vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Shaco
based on 990 Shaco vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Kog'Maw
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Shaco versus Kog'Maw counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kog'Maw..
Shaco usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Shaco or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually wins when playing against Kog'Maw, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes a good counter for Kog'Maw.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate than Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Shaco into Kog'Mawas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Kog'Maw matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Shaco is a good counter to Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco often picks up a lot less CS as Kog'Maw. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Shaco versus Kog'Maw build consist of Bloodsong, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Kog'Maw than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 52.4% battling Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Kog'Maw as Shaco, Shaco players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Shaco vs Kog'Maw counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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