Naafiri vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Naafiri
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Naafiri vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Kog'Maw
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Advice to Win Against Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Naafiri vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Naafiri in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several influential Naafiri vs. Kog'Maw counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Kog'Maw..
Naafiri normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives more damage than Kog'Maw. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Kog'Maw?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when playing against Kog'Maw, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes an ok counter to Kog'Maw.
While Naafiri does have a lower winrate compared to Kog'Maw, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Kog'Maw.
Additionally, Naafiri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter to Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to counter Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Kog'Maw. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Kog'Maw build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better versus Kog'Maw than with many other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Kog'Maw with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Kog'Maw as Naafiri, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Naafiri vs Kog'Maw counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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