Zyra vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Zyra
based on 1,155 Zyra vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Kog'Maw
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several vital Zyra vs. Kog'Maw counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Zyra or Kog'Maw?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when facing off against Kog'Maw, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a good counter to Kog'Maw.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate compared to Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zyra into Kog'Mawas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zyra 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Kog'Maw matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zyra is a decent counter to Kog'Maw. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zyra to counter Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra often accumulates less CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zyra versus Kog'Maw build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Kog'Maw as Zyra, Zyra players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Zyra vs Kog'Maw matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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