Vayne vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Vayne
based on 1,599 Vayne vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Kog'Maw
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential Vayne vs. Kog'Maw matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kog'Maw..
Vayne usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Vayne or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually wins when facing off against Kog'Maw, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes a good counter to Kog'Maw.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Vayne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vayne into Kog'Mawas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Kog'Maw matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vayne is a good counter to Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vayne in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Vayne versus Kog'Maw build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Vayne bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Kog'Maw than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when countering Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kog'Maw as Vayne, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Vayne vs Kog'Maw clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.8% winrate overall.
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