For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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 Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kog'Maw helps Lucian perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Kog'Maw doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Lucian during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Lucian that will always be his top teammate. However, Kog'Maw is a very bad teammate for Lucian. By playing on the same team as Lucian, he drops their win rate by -4.9% to 43.9%. This shows that there is a very bad synergy between Lucian and Kog'Maw that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be careful when arranging Kog'Maw comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Lucian players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Lucian and Kog'Maw together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Lucian to work well with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Lucian and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Rapid Firecannon, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 43.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Lucian players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.9% winrate overall.
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