Kog'Maw vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Kog'Maw
based on 658 Kog'Maw vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Aphelios Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kog'Maw Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Aphelios as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Kog'Maw vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some influential Kog'Maw versus Aphelios counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aphelios..
Kog'Maw often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Aphelios
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Kog'Maw makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kog'Maw into Aphelios.
Additionally, Kog'Maw also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Aphelios matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Aphelios.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kog'Maw
Additional Information for Kog'Maw Players
How We Calculated Our Kog'Maw vs Aphelios Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kog'Maw versus Aphelios build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Aphelios than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 51.4% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Aphelios as Kog'Maw, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kog'Maw vs Aphelios fights, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aphelios as Kog'Maw are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.