Kog'Maw with Leona
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Leona
based on 879 Kog'Maw with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Leona Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Leona
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Kog'Maw Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Kog'Maw perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw plays on the same team as Leona, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This may signal that Leona provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Leona.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Leona on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Leona does a poor job of protecting Kog'Maw in team fights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Leona
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best synergy for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Leona is a very typical companion for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same team as Kog'Maw, she lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.6%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Kog'Maw and Leona that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players don't need to be careful when finding Leona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Kog'Maw and Leona together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Leona ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kog'Maw to work well with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Kog'Maw and Leona synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Leona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with this build.
To have the greatest probability 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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