Nasus with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Nasus and Kog'Maw
based on 872 Nasus with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Nasus vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Kog'Maw
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nasus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kog'Maw helps Nasus perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Kog'Maw, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Kog'Maw supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Nasus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nasus and Kog'Maw
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top champion pairing for Nasus that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a pretty good ally for Nasus. By playing on the same side as Nasus, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 52.4%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Nasus and Kog'Maw that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be cautious when finding Kog'Maw teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Nasus and Kog'Maw together, you may not be providing your other allies much support. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Nasus to work well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Nasus and Kog'Maw synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kog'Maw than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Nasus players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Nasus and Kog'Maw pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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