Sylas vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Sylas
based on 944 Sylas vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Kog'Maw
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several important Sylas vs. Kog'Maw matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kog'Maw..
Sylas often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sylas and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Sylas or Kog'Maw?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually wins when taking on Kog'Maw, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes a good counter to Kog'Maw.
While Sylas does have a higher winrate than Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Sylas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sylas into Kog'Maw.
Moreover, Sylas has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Kog'Maw matchups, Sylas is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Sylas is a decent counter to Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sylas in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas on average gets a similar amount of CS as Kog'Maw. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, 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, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sylas versus Kog'Maw build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when playing against Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Kog'Maw as Sylas, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Sylas vs Kog'Maw battles, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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