Gragas with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Gragas and Kog'Maw
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Gragas Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Kog'Maw
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Kog'Maw, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Kog'Maw does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a decent job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Kog'Maw
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no ideal companion for Gragas that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a very bad teammate for Gragas. By being on the same team as Gragas, he decreases their win rate by -4.5% to 43.4%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Gragas and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players should be cautious when enlisting Kog'Maw comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Gragas and Kog'Maw together, you may not be providing your team enough cover. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to pair well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Gragas and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 43.4% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Gragas players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Gragas and Kog'Maw pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Kog'Maw with Gragas are displayed for every ranked division. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.