Kog'Maw with Graves
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Graves
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Kog'Maw Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Graves
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Kog'Maw Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Graves, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Graves does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Graves on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Kog'Maw in teamfights.
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect synergy for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Kog'Maw. By being on the same side as Kog'Maw, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 48.1%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Kog'Maw and Graves that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Kog'Maw and Graves together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold 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
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw in order to synergize with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Kog'Maw and Graves synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Graves than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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