Kog'Maw with Nocturne
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Nocturne
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Kog'Maw Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Nocturne
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 Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Kog'Maw Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Nocturne, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Nocturne provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Nocturne on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw during team fights.
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect ally for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Nocturne is a top-tier teammate for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same side as Kog'Maw, he increases their win rate by 3.4% to 52.4%. This signals that there is a very strong synergy between Kog'Maw and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nocturne comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Kog'Maw players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Kog'Maw and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Kog'Maw in order to synergize with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Kog'Maw and Nocturne synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other common builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Kog'Maw players 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 combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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