Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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 Nidalee 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, Nidalee sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Nidalee perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage output. This may signal that Kog'Maw does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Nidalee during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nidalee that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, Kog'Maw is a very typical teammate for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 44.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Nidalee and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Kog'Maw teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nidalee players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Nidalee and Kog'Maw together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to pair well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Nidalee and Kog'Maw synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 44.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kog'Maw with Nidalee are displayed for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.