Thresh with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Thresh and Kog'Maw
based on 958 Thresh with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Kog'Maw
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kog'Maw helps Thresh perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is an ally to Kog'Maw, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Kog'Maw provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh 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 alongside Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Thresh in teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Kog'Maw
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no one best champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Kog'Maw is a not very good companion for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 45.7%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Thresh and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Kog'Maw comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Thresh and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of engage potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Thresh and Kog'Maw synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 45.7% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Thresh players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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