Kog'Maw with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Rek'Sai
based on 132 Kog'Maw with Rek'Sai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Core Kog'Maw Items
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Kog'Maw Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rek'Sai helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Rek'Sai, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Rek'Sai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Rek'Sai does a poor job of covering Kog'Maw in teamfights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Rek'Sai
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Rek'Sai is a very typical teammate for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same side as Kog'Maw, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 49.2%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Kog'Maw and Rek'Sai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rek'Sai teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Kog'Maw players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Kog'Maw and Rek'Sai together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rek'Sai teammate, you should focus on increasing 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
To truly master Kog'Maw in order to synergize with Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Kog'Maw and Rek'Sai synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Kog'Maw players 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 combinations that we analyzed for Kog'Maw and Rek'Sai pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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