Thresh vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Thresh
based on 1,161 Thresh vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Kog'Maw
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several influential Thresh versus Kog'Maw counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between this set of champions. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Thresh or Kog'Maw?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kog'Maw, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter for Kog'Maw.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate compared to Kog'Maw, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Kog'Mawas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Kog'Maw. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Thresh versus Kog'Maw build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Kog'Maw than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kog'Maw as Thresh, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Thresh vs Kog'Maw battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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