Kog'Maw with Riven
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Riven
based on 837 Kog'Maw with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Riven
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Kog'Maw Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Kog'Maw perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw tries to synergize with Riven, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Riven provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played together with Riven 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 synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Riven on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw during team fights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Riven
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Riven is a decent teammate for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, she increases their win rate by 1.2% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Kog'Maw and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players should be cautious when enlisting Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Kog'Maw and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 in order to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Kog'Maw and Riven synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating 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 used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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