Vi with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Vi and Kog'Maw
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Vi Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Vi with Kog'Maw
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kog'Maw helps Vi perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vi plays on the same team as Kog'Maw, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kog'Maw doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vi 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 with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Vi in team fights.
Synergies between Vi and Kog'Maw
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Is Vi better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no one best companion for Vi that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a very typical companion for Vi. By locking into the same side as Vi, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Vi and Kog'Maw that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Vi. That means you need to be careful when finding Kog'Maw comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Vi players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vi and Kog'Maw together, you may not be granting your other allies very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vi to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Vi and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Vi used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 52.0% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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