Kog'Maw with Bard
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Bard
based on 623 Kog'Maw with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Bard
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Kog'Maw Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw plays on the same team as Bard, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Bard does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Bard on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Kog'Maw during teamfights.
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect companion for Kog'Maw that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Bard is a decent ally for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same team as Kog'Maw, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Kog'Maw and Bard that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means you should be very careful when finding Bard comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Kog'Maw players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Kog'Maw and Bard together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of engage potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kog'Maw and Bard synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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 runes players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
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