Kog'Maw vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Kog'Maw
based on 797 Kog'Maw vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Amumu
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.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Kog'Maw vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several vital Kog'Maw vs. Amumu counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Amumu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kog'Maw typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Amumu
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Amumu?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually wins when facing off against Amumu, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes a good counter to Amumu.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher win rate than Amumu, when facing one another, Kog'Maw also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Kog'Maw into Amumu.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Amumu matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kog'Maw is an above average counter for Amumu. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kog'Maw against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often racks up much more CS relative to Amumu. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kog'Maw versus Amumu build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Amumu than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Amumu as Kog'Maw, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kog'Maw vs Amumu clashes, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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