Talon with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Talon and Kog'Maw
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Talon Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Talon vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Talon with Kog'Maw
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Talon in LoL
The Talon 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, Talon sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kog'Maw helps Talon perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon plays on the same team as Kog'Maw, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Kog'Maw helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kog'Maw. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Talon plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Talon during team fights.
Synergies between Talon and Kog'Maw
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Is Talon better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top ally for Talon that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a below average ally for Talon. By locking into the same side as Talon, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Talon and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Kog'Maw teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Talon and Kog'Maw together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Talon in order to pair well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Talon and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Profane Hydra. When Talon bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Talon players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Talon and Kog'Maw pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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