Ryze vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Ryze
based on 282 Ryze vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Core Ryze Items
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Kog'Maw
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Ryze in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Ryze vs. Kog'Maw counter statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kog'Maw..
Ryze often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Kog'Maw. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ryze and Kog'Maw
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Ryze or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ryze usually wins when trying to fight Kog'Maw, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a good counter for Kog'Maw.
While Ryze does have a higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when they face off with one another, Ryze also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Ryze into Kog'Mawas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ryze also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Kog'Maw matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ryze is an above average counter to Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ryze against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ryze versus Kog'Maw build include Seraph's Embrace, Luden's Companion, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Kog'Maw than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 52.5% when playing against Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Kog'Maw as Ryze, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ryze vs Kog'Maw matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% winrate overall.
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