Mid · 70 games · EUW

Kog'Maw

Mid · 21% of games Bot · 61%Top · 8%Jungle · 9%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−277 gold), and still wins 50%.

Win rate: 50.0%; ±11.7 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #37 of 72
Pick rate: 1.1%; ban 0.5%
Games: 70; ranked solo/duo

Kog'Maw mid wins 50.0% of 70 ranked games in EUW, rank 37 of 72 mid champions (tier B). Most players finish Dusk and Dawn first, at about 11:42.

The build at a glance

What most Kog'Maw players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Dusk and Dawn 11:30 · 89% · 57 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:24 · 89% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 20:36 · 100% · 49 games

Item 3

Rabadon's Deathcap 26:27 · 100% · 25 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 29:24 · 5 of 12 games

Item 5 · late game

Banshee's Veil 30:06 · 3 of 6 games

Runes

Stormraider's Surge · Sorcery + Precision 17% of games · 50% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 77% of games · 48% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 59% of games · 49% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Bio-Arcane Barrage first 79% of games · 49% wins Skill orders →

When Kog'Maw wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′44% wins26% of games · 18

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins69% of games · 48

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Kog'Maw games

First Baron: 88% against 27%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 27% 88% +61

First tower 32% 81% +49

Rift Herald 35% 74% +39

First dragon 38% 65% +26

First blood 49% 52% +3

First Voidgrubs 49% 52% +3

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Kog'Maw plays

Fewer control wards, more damage

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer control wards a game0.41 against 0.64 · −36%

More damage a minute1086 against 874 · +24%

More share of team damage29% against 24% · +20%

More multikills a game0.91 against 0.79 · +15%

Fewer solo kills a game1.6 against 1.9 · −14%

About average: minions, vision, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:24

Item 2done ~20:36

Item 3done ~25:48

Item 4done ~31:24

Item 5done ~34:24

Most common full builds

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 52.4%21 games

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap › Void Staff 50.0%4 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Archangel's Staff › Rabadon's Deathcap 100.0%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Shadowflame 75%20

Rabadon's Deathcap 73%15

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion48.1%54

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion45.5%11

Health Potion + Health Potion + Tear of the Goddess75.0%4

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:2451.6%62

Gluttonous Greaves ~9:3625.0%4

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost48.8%41

Flash + Teleport47.4%19

Exhaust + Flash71.4%7

Skills

Max

E49.1%55

Max

W50.0%8

Start

Q46.4%28

Start

W55.0%20

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Kog'Maw dies 2.4 times a game (average 2.3). 52% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 48% for the average mid laner. 29% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.4deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.3)

52%involve the enemy junglermore than average (48%)

71%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (67%)

60%with no teammate nearabout average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Kog'Maw dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 44% in your half of mid. Collapses: 28% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 68% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Kog'Maw

Kind of death

Kog'Maw Average

Gank 52% (avg 48%)Collapse 19% (avg 19%)1-v-1 29% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Kog'Maw Average

Bot laner 5% (avg 7%)Jungler 30% (avg 27%)Support 8% (avg 7%)Mid laner 51% (avg 54%)Top laner 6% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00, 6:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Kog'Maw Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Kog'Maw; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Kog'Maw wins fights

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 1.6 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.2 in your half of mid. Overall 0.7 kills per death.

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 19 / 82

Their half of mid 1.6 K/D 46 / 29

The bot-side river 0.6 K/D 11 / 17

The top-side river 0.6 K/D 8 / 14

Their jungle 2.2 K/D 13 / 6

Your jungle 1.3 K/D 9 / 7

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Kog'Maw wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 29% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 70% when Kog'Maw is there and 77% when not.

Kog'Maw

What most Kog'Maw players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 88% against 27%

Fewer control wards, more damage

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Kog'Maw's games

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Kog'Maw

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00, 6:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in their half of bot lane

Where fights happen