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.
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
The Kog'Maw Sivir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sivir, 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 Sivir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sivir helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is paired with Sivir, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Sivir provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played alongside Sivir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sivir.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Sivir on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Sivir does a decent job of protecting Kog'Maw in team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Sivir is a very bad companion for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, she decreases their win rate by -9.6% to 39.4%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Kog'Maw and Sivir that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sivir has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Sivir allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Kog'Maw players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kog'Maw and Sivir together, you may not be providing your side much engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Sivir teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to pair well with Sivir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Kog'Maw and Sivir synergy build include Guardian Angel, Runaan's Hurricane, and Wit's End. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Sivir than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 39.4% helping carry Sivir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 39.4% win rate overall.
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