Zoe vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Zoe
based on 367 Zoe vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Kog'Maw
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some significant Zoe versus Kog'Maw counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kog'Maw..
Zoe often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Kog'Maw
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Zoe or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when trying to fight Kog'Maw, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a poor counter for Kog'Maw.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate than Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Kog'Maw.
Additionally, Zoe also has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a garbage counter to Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zoe in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Kog'Maw build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Kog'Maw than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 46.6% when playing against Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Kog'Maw as Zoe, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Zoe vs Kog'Maw fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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