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Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some significant Illaoi against Kog'Maw matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kog'Maw..
Illaoi usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Kog'Maw. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when facing off against Kog'Maw, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a good counter for Kog'Maw.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Kog'Maw.
Furthermore, Illaoi has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Kog'Maw matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Illaoi is a decent counter for Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Kog'Maw.
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Kog'Maw build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Kog'Maw than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 51.2% battling Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Kog'Maw as Illaoi, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Illaoi vs Kog'Maw battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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