Kog'Maw with Lux
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Lux
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Kog'Maw Lux Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Lux
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Kog'Maw Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lux helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is paired with Lux, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Lux does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Lux on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lux. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lux.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Lux on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Lux does a poor job of covering Kog'Maw during team fights.
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Lux?
There is no one best ally for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Lux is a very typical teammate for Kog'Maw. By being on the same side as Kog'Maw, she decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.5%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Kog'Maw and Lux that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Lux has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players don't need to be careful when arranging Lux allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kog'Maw and Lux together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of engage potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Lux ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kog'Maw to pair well with Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Kog'Maw and Lux synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Lux than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Lux with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Kog'Maw players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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