Kog'Maw with Alistar
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Alistar
based on 369 Kog'Maw with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Kog'Maw Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Alistar, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Alistar 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 Alistar.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Alistar on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Kog'Maw in teamfights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Alistar
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Alistar is a below average ally for Kog'Maw. By being on the same team as Kog'Maw, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Kog'Maw and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Alistar comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Kog'Maw players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Kog'Maw and Alistar together, you will not be providing your side enough magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Kog'Maw and Alistar synergy build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw included at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Alistar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 47.4% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you 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 combinations that we analyzed for Kog'Maw and Alistar pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
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