Leona with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Leona and Kog'Maw
based on 879 Leona with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Leona with Kog'Maw
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.
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
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.
Leona Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Leona in LoL
The Leona Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kog'Maw helps Leona perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona is an ally to Kog'Maw, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may signal that Kog'Maw helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, she usually takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Leona that will always be her top ally. However, Kog'Maw is a terrible companion for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 48.6%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Leona and Kog'Maw that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Kog'Maw teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Leona and Kog'Maw together, you will not be granting your side a lot of AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Leona to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Leona and Kog'Maw synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Kog'Maw than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 48.6% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Leona and Kog'Maw pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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