Kog'Maw with Gnar
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Gnar
based on 309 Kog'Maw with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Kog'Maw Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gnar helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw tries to synergize with Gnar, he sees a noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Gnar does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Gnar on the same team, he on average receives less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Kog'Maw in team fights.
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, Gnar is a very bad ally for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, he drops their win rate by -7.3% to 41.7%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kog'Maw and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Gnar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Kog'Maw players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Kog'Maw and Gnar together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much engage potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw to work well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kog'Maw and Gnar synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Gnar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 41.7% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 41.7% winrate overall.
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