Karma vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Karma
based on 731 Karma vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Kog'Maw
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
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.
Karma vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several valuable Karma versus Kog'Maw matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Karma or Kog'Maw?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Kog'Maw, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a bad counter to Kog'Maw.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Kog'Maw.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often racks up less CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Karma versus Kog'Maw build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kog'Maw as Karma, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Karma vs Kog'Maw fights, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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