Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
The Lee Sin Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lee Sin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Lee Sin perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lee Sin tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Kog'Maw does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played alongside Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Lee Sin during team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Lee Sin that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a terrible companion for Lee Sin. By being on the same side as Lee Sin, he lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 43.1%. This shows that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Lee Sin and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Lee Sin. That means Lee Sin players don't need to be very careful when finding Kog'Maw teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Lee Sin players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Lee Sin and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of engage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to pair well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Lee Sin and Kog'Maw synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 43.1% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Lee Sin and Kog'Maw pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kog'Maw with Lee Sin are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.