Aphelios with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Aphelios and Kog'Maw
based on 112 Aphelios with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Core Aphelios Items
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Kog'Maw
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Aphelios Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kog'Maw helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Kog'Maw, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Kog'Maw does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kog'Maw does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Kog'Maw
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no ideal synergy for Aphelios that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a superb teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 6.8% to 55.4%. This demonstrates that there is a strong bond between Aphelios and Kog'Maw that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Kog'Maw allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Aphelios players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Aphelios and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Aphelios Kog'Maw Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios in order to work well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Aphelios and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 55.4% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Aphelios players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Aphelios and Kog'Maw pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.4% winrate overall.
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