Kog'Maw with Katarina
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Katarina
based on 898 Kog'Maw with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Kog'Maw Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Katarina, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may signal that Katarina does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Katarina 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 Katarina.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Katarina on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Kog'Maw during teamfights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Katarina
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Katarina is a relatively poor teammate for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same team as Kog'Maw, she lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.2%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Kog'Maw and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means you must be very careful when arranging Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Kog'Maw players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kog'Maw and Katarina together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to pair well with Katarina 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 presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Kog'Maw and Katarina synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Katarina with Kog'Maw are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.