Kog'Maw with Akshan
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Akshan
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Kog'Maw Akshan Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Kog'Maw Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akshan helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw plays on the same team as Akshan, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Akshan provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Akshan on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Kog'Maw during teamfights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Akshan
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no one best companion for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Akshan is a very typical ally for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same team as Kog'Maw, they raises their win rate by 0.6% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Kog'Maw and Akshan that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Akshan comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Kog'Maw players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kog'Maw and Akshan together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw in order to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Kog'Maw and Akshan synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Akshan than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Kog'Maw players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kog'Maw and Akshan pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Akshan with Kog'Maw are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.