Graves vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Graves
based on 1,305 Graves vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Kog'Maw
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Advice to Win Against Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Graves vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several significant Graves vs. Kog'Maw counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kog'Maw..
Graves usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Graves or Kog'Maw?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually wins when playing against Kog'Maw, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Graves makes a good counter for Kog'Maw.
While Graves does have a higher win rate compared to Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Graves also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Graves into Kog'Maw.
Furthermore, Graves also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Kog'Maw matchups, Graves is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Graves is a good counter to Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Graves against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kog'Maw. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Graves versus Kog'Maw build consist of Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Kog'Maw as Graves, Graves players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Graves vs Kog'Maw fights, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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