Xerath vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Xerath
based on 1,142 Xerath vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Kog'Maw
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Xerath in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Xerath against Kog'Maw counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw..
Xerath often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Kog'Maw. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xerath and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Xerath or Kog'Maw?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xerath usually wins when taking on Kog'Maw, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Xerath makes a good counter to Kog'Maw.
While Xerath does have a higher win rate compared to Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Xerath also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Xerath into Kog'Mawas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Xerath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Kog'Maw matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Xerath is an above average counter to Kog'Maw. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Xerath against Kog'Maw.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xerath
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Xerath in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath usually gets less CS compared to Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Xerath versus Kog'Maw build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Kog'Maw than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 52.9% battling Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Kog'Maw as Xerath, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Xerath vs Kog'Maw fights, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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