Maokai with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Maokai and Kog'Maw
based on 990 Maokai with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Kog'Maw
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai 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, Maokai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kog'Maw helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Kog'Maw, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kog'Maw supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Kog'Maw
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a not very good teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 51.4%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Maokai and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be very careful when finding Kog'Maw allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Maokai and Kog'Maw together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to work well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Maokai and Kog'Maw synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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