Kog'Maw with Garen
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Garen
based on 1,051 Kog'Maw with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Garen Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Garen
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Kog'Maw Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Garen, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Garen doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Garen on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw in team fights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Garen
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Garen is a very typical companion for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same team as Kog'Maw, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 49.7%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Kog'Maw and Garen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Kog'Maw players should 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 aligning Kog'Maw and Garen together, you may not be providing your other allies very much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Kog'Maw and Garen synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 49.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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