Caitlyn with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Kog'Maw
based on 539 Caitlyn with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Caitlyn Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Kog'Maw
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kog'Maw helps Caitlyn perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn plays on the same team as Kog'Maw, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This may signal that Kog'Maw helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Caitlyn during team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no ideal ally for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, Kog'Maw is a not very good companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same side as Caitlyn, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 47.5%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Caitlyn and Kog'Maw that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Kog'Maw teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Caitlyn players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Caitlyn and Kog'Maw together, you may not be giving your team much tankyness. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to work well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Caitlyn and Kog'Maw synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Stormrazor. When Caitlyn used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with many other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Caitlyn players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Caitlyn and Kog'Maw pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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