Kog'Maw with Aphelios
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Aphelios
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Kog'Maw Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Kog'Maw Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Kog'Maw perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw tries to synergize with Aphelios, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw in teamfights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Aphelios
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect ally for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Aphelios is a great ally for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, he improves their win rate by 6.4% to 55.4%. This shows that there is a strong bond between Kog'Maw and Aphelios that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Kog'Maw. That means you should be careful when enlisting Aphelios teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Kog'Maw players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kog'Maw and Aphelios together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much tankyness. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 pair well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kog'Maw and Aphelios synergy build include Guardian Angel, Runaan's Hurricane, and Wit's End. When Kog'Maw included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 55.4% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Kog'Maw players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Kog'Maw and Aphelios pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.4% win rate overall.
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