Kog'Maw with Sona
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Sona
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Kog'Maw Sona Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Sona
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Kog'Maw Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sona helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw tries to synergize with Sona, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Sona does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Sona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Sona on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Sona does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw during team fights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Sona
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Sona?
There is no perfect synergy for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Sona is a relatively poor companion for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, she lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Kog'Maw and Sona that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Sona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Kog'Maw players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kog'Maw and Sona together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of engage potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw in order to pair well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kog'Maw and Sona synergy build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Sona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kog'Maw players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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