Kog'Maw with Akali
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Akali
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Kog'Maw Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Akali
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Kog'Maw Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kog'Maw sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akali helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Akali, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Akali does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played together with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Akali on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Kog'Maw during teamfights.
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top companion for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Akali is a very typical ally for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same team as Kog'Maw, she lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 48.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Kog'Maw and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players need to be very careful when enlisting Akali comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kog'Maw and Akali together, you may not be granting your team enough protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kog'Maw in order to pair well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Kog'Maw and Akali synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akali with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Kog'Maw players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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