Illaoi with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Illaoi and Kog'Maw
based on 553 Illaoi with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Kog'Maw
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Illaoi Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Illaoi perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is paired with Kog'Maw, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kog'Maw supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Kog'Maw
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Illaoi that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a decent companion for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, he raises their win rate by 2.7% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Illaoi and Kog'Maw that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means you must be careful when arranging Kog'Maw teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Illaoi players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Illaoi and Kog'Maw together, you will not be granting your other allies much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to work well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Illaoi and Kog'Maw synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Kog'Maw than with most other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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