Kog'Maw vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kog'Maw
based on 1,228 Kog'Maw vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Maokai
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 Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Kog'Maw vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some critical Kog'Maw vs. Maokai matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kog'Maw usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Maokai?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Kog'Maw makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kog'Maw into Maokai.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a bad counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kog'Maw to counter Maokai 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 displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw most often gets much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kog'Maw versus Maokai build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 46.7% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Maokai 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Kog'Maw vs Maokai clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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