Kog'Maw vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Kog'Maw
based on 759 Kog'Maw vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Bard Counter Build
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Core Kog'Maw Items
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Guide to Countering Bard as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Kog'Maw vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats shown here show some significant Kog'Maw versus Bard matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the differences in killsdeaths.
Kog'Maw usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Bard
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Kog'Maw does have a much lower winrate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kog'Maw into Bard.
Additionally, Kog'Maw also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kog'Maw is a terribly counter for Bard. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kog'Maw against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kog'Maw
Additional Information for Kog'Maw Players
How We Calculated Our Kog'Maw vs Bard Build and Stats
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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 Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often racks up much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kog'Maw versus Bard build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 45.8% battling Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Bard as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kog'Maw vs Bard fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Bard as Kog'Maw are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.