Kog'Maw with Karthus
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Karthus
based on 303 Kog'Maw with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Karthus
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.
Advice to Understand How Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Kog'Maw Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kog'Maw sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Karthus helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw plays on the same team as Karthus, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Karthus provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Karthus on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Kog'Maw in team fights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Karthus
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no top champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Karthus is a very bad companion for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same team as Kog'Maw, he drops their win rate by -3.5% to 45.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kog'Maw and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players should be cautious when lining up Karthus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Kog'Maw and Karthus together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much cover. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kog'Maw in order to synergize with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Kog'Maw and Karthus synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Karthus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 45.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kog'Maw and Karthus pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
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