Nasus vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Nasus
based on 927 Nasus vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Kog'Maw
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Nasus versus Kog'Maw counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Kog'Maw. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Nasus or Kog'Maw?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when trying to fight Kog'Maw, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a great counter to Kog'Maw.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Kog'Maw.
Furthermore, Nasus has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Kog'Maw matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nasus is a great counter for Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Kog'Maw build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Trinity Force. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when countering Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Kog'Maw as Nasus, Nasus players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Nasus vs Kog'Maw matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
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