Warwick vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Warwick
based on 1,324 Warwick vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Kog'Maw
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Warwick in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Warwick versus Kog'Maw counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kog'Maw..
Warwick often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Warwick or Kog'Maw?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually loses when playing against Kog'Maw, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes a poor counter for Kog'Maw.
While Warwick does have a lower win rate compared to Kog'Maw, when they face off with one another, Warwick also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Warwick into Kog'Maw.
Furthermore, Warwick has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Warwick is a terribly counter for Kog'Maw. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Warwick against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane 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 shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick often picks up a lot less CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Warwick versus Kog'Maw build include Experimental Hexplate, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Warwick boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when countering Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Kog'Maw as Warwick, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Warwick vs Kog'Maw counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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