Kog'Maw vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Kog'Maw
based on 697 Kog'Maw vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Kog'Maw vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Kog'Maw versus Soraka matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kog'Maw typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Soraka. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Soraka
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Soraka?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when facing off against Soraka, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Kog'Maw makes a poor counter to Soraka.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower winrate than Soraka, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Kog'Maw into Soraka.
Additionally, Kog'Maw also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kog'Maw is a terribly counter to Soraka. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Soraka.
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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 Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw most often racks up much more CS as Soraka. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly 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 situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Kog'Maw versus Soraka build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Soraka than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Soraka with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Soraka 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. Out of all the runes players chose for Kog'Maw vs Soraka battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
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