Kog'Maw with Nilah
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Nilah
based on 67 Kog'Maw with Nilah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Nilah Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Nilah
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.
Kog'Maw Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nilah helps Kog'Maw perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is paired with Nilah, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Nilah provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played together with Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nilah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nilah.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Nilah on the same side, he typically takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Kog'Maw in teamfights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Nilah
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Nilah is a very bad companion for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, they lowers their win rate by -5.7% to 43.3%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Kog'Maw and Nilah that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Kog'Maw. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Nilah teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kog'Maw and Nilah together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Kog'Maw and Nilah synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Runaan's Hurricane, and Wit's End. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nilah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 43.3% helping carry Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Kog'Maw players should take the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nilah with Kog'Maw are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.