Lux with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Lux and Kog'Maw
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Lux Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Lux with Kog'Maw
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
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.
Lux Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Lux in LoL
The Lux Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lux sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kog'Maw helps Lux perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lux is paired with Kog'Maw, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kog'Maw supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Lux plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Lux during teamfights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Lux that will always be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a relatively poor ally for Lux. By locking into the same team as Lux, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Lux and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Lux. That means you should be cautious when lining up Kog'Maw allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Lux and Kog'Maw together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux to work well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Lux and Kog'Maw synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lux boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Lux players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Lux and Kog'Maw pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kog'Maw with Lux are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.