Rek'Sai with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Kog'Maw
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Rek'Sai Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Core Rek'Sai Items
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Kog'Maw
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kog'Maw helps Rek'Sai perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rek'Sai plays on the same team as Kog'Maw, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Kog'Maw provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Rek'Sai plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Rek'Sai in team fights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Kog'Maw
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no one best ally for Rek'Sai that will always be his best synergy. However, Kog'Maw is a very typical companion for Rek'Sai. By being on the same team as Rek'Sai, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 49.2%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Rek'Sai and Kog'Maw that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Rek'Sai. That means Rek'Sai players need to be cautious when finding Kog'Maw teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Rek'Sai and Kog'Maw together, you may not be providing your other allies very much magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kog'Maw teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Rek'Sai in order to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Rek'Sai and Kog'Maw synergy build include Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Black Cleaver. When Rek'Sai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Rek'Sai players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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