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.
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
The Kog'Maw Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Master Yi helps Kog'Maw perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is paired with Master Yi, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Master Yi does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Master Yi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Master Yi.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Master Yi on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Master Yi is a good teammate for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same side as Kog'Maw, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 50.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Kog'Maw and Master Yi that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Master Yi has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Master Yi teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kog'Maw and Master Yi together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Master Yi teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to synergize with Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Kog'Maw and Master Yi synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Master Yi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Master Yi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kog'Maw and Master Yi pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Master Yi with Kog'Maw are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.