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The Nilah Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nilah sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kog'Maw helps Nilah perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nilah is paired with Kog'Maw, they sees a measurable drop in their full damage output. This change may signal that Kog'Maw does not provide protection for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nilah is played with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Nilah plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, they on average receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Nilah in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nilah that will always be their #1 synergy. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a very bad ally for Nilah. By locking into the same team as Nilah, he lowers their win rate by -8.8% to 43.3%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Nilah and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a much lower diffuclty than Nilah. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Kog'Maw teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Nilah players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nilah and Kog'Maw together, you may not be giving your team very much engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Nilah in order to work well with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Nilah and Kog'Maw synergy build include Immortal Shieldbow, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 43.3% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nilah and Kog'Maw pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.3% win rate overall.
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