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.
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
The Kog'Maw Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Kog'Maw perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Xin Zhao does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Xin Zhao on the same team, 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 alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw in team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 49.1%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Kog'Maw and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Xin Zhao allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Kog'Maw and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Kog'Maw and Xin Zhao synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xin Zhao with Kog'Maw are shown for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.