Kog'Maw with Nidalee
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Nidalee
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Kog'Maw Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Kog'Maw Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Kog'Maw perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Nidalee, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Nidalee does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Nidalee on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw in team fights.
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will always be his best synergy. However, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same team as Kog'Maw, she decreases their win rate by -4.2% to 44.8%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Kog'Maw and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players should be careful when arranging Nidalee teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kog'Maw players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kog'Maw and Nidalee together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to work well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Kog'Maw and Nidalee synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 44.8% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kog'Maw and Nidalee pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.8% winrate overall.
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