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.
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
The Kog'Maw Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, 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 Shyvana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shyvana helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Shyvana, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Shyvana does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Shyvana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shyvana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shyvana.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Shyvana on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Shyvana does a decent job of protecting Kog'Maw during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Kog'Maw that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Shyvana is a good ally for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, she raises their win rate by 2.1% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Kog'Maw and Shyvana that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Shyvana has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players don't need to be very careful when finding Shyvana teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Kog'Maw players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kog'Maw and Shyvana together, you may not be providing your side very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shyvana ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw in order to pair well with Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Kog'Maw and Shyvana synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Shyvana than with many other common builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 51.1% helping carry Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability 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 builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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