Volibear with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Volibear and Kog'Maw
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Volibear Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Core Volibear Items
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Kog'Maw
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.
Volibear Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear 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 negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Volibear perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear is paired with Kog'Maw, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change may signal that Kog'Maw supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played together 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.
Additionally, when Volibear plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Volibear during team fights.
Synergies between Volibear and Kog'Maw
Damage Types Compared
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top synergy for Volibear that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Kog'Maw is a terrible teammate for Volibear. By playing on the same team as Volibear, he decreases their win rate by -3.3% to 44.7%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Volibear and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Volibear. That means you should be very careful when finding Kog'Maw teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Volibear and Kog'Maw together, you may not be giving your side enough utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Volibear Kog'Maw Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Volibear in order to work well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Volibear and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with many other common builds. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 44.7% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kog'Maw with Volibear are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.