Kog'Maw with Naafiri
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Naafiri
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Kog'Maw Naafiri Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Kog'Maw Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Naafiri helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Naafiri, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Naafiri does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Naafiri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Naafiri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Naafiri.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Naafiri on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw in team fights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Naafiri
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a good companion for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, they raises their win rate by 1.4% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Kog'Maw and Naafiri that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Naafiri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Kog'Maw and Naafiri together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Naafiri teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to pair well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Kog'Maw and Naafiri synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Naafiri than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Naafiri with this build.
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 used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Naafiri with Kog'Maw are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.