Mid · 141 games

Kog'Maw

Mid · 21% of games Bot · 67%Top · 7%Jungle · 4%

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (53%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−353 gold).

Win rate: 47.5%; ±8.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #56 of 81
Pick rate: 0.7%; ban 0.5%
Games: 141; ranked solo/duo

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Kog'Maw mid wins 47.5% of 141 ranked games, rank 56 of 81 mid champions (tier C). Most players finish Dusk and Dawn first, at about 11:36.

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 11:34 · 84% · 112 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:36 · 85% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 20:40 · 100% · 92 games

Item 3

Rabadon's Deathcap 26:59 · 75% · 38 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 28:24 · 8 of 24 games

Item 5 · late game

Banshee's Veil 30:06 · 3 of 9 games

Runes

Stormraider's Surge · Sorcery + Precision 20% of games · 46% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 87% of games · 47% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 56% of games · 53% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Bio-Arcane Barrage first 68% of games · 51% wins Skill orders →

When Kog'Maw wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

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

Ends before 25′38% wins28% of games · 40

Lasts 25′ or more49% wins67% of games · 95

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: 81% against 28%

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

First Baron 28% 81% +53

First tower 31% 73% +43

Rift Herald 38% 64% +27

First dragon 35% 61% +26

First blood 43% 53% +10

First Voidgrubs 45% 50% +5

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

More damage, more share of team damage

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

More damage a minute1044 against 839 · +24%

More share of team damage29% against 24% · +21%

More deaths a game6.3 against 5.5 · +16%

Fewer control wards a game0.85 against 1.01 · −16%

More time spent dead6.9s against 6.0s a minute · +14%

About average: minions, 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 ~20:30

Item 3done ~26:12

Item 4done ~31:00

Item 5done ~34:18

Most common full builds

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 50.0%30 games

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Stormsurge 50.0%6 games

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap › Void Staff 40.0%5 games

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass › Rabadon's Deathcap 75.0%4 games

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Void Staff 66.7%3 games

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap › Zhonya's Hourglass 66.7%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

Rabadon's Deathcap 72%18

Stormsurge 60%5

Shadowflame 59%32

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 Potion46.7%122

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion42.9%14

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

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:3650.0%120

Gluttonous Greaves ~9:3625.0%4

Boots of Swiftness ~9:4250.0%4

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost53.2%79

Flash + Teleport38.2%34

Exhaust + Flash52.4%21

Skills

Max

E51.0%96

Max

W41.2%17

Start

Q54.0%63

Start

W44.1%34

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

No clearly easy lane yet

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 1 of them

Expected: what Kog'Maw's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (18)

Twisted Fate 57% · 7

Ahri 14% · 7

Akali 50% · 6

Viktor 33% · 6

Yasuo 67% · 6

Vladimir 100% · 5

Zoe 40% · 5

Aurora 20% · 5

Locke 40% · 5

Lissandra 75% · 4

Yone 0% · 4

Anivia 0% · 3

Cho'Gath 67% · 3

Ekko 33% · 3

Jayce 33% · 3

Lux 67% · 3

Galio 33% · 3

Orianna 100% · 3

Kog'Maw vs Syndra · 16 games · Early read

About what you would expect

50%winsexpected 48%

−305gold at 15′average −353

−5.8minions at 10′ahead or behind

6%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.19 a game

Gold lead against Syndra Kog'Maw's average lead

Against Syndra, Kog'Maw is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 53% of games, and still wins 50% of those. When ahead, Kog'Maw wins 57%.

Ahead at 15′57% wins7 games

Behind at 15′50% wins8 games

Full Kog'Maw vs Syndra page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Kog'Maw games: Nautilus

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy support Trouble

Nautilus38% · exp. 51% −1316 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies more than most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Kog'Maw dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.2). 53% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 28% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

53%involve the enemy junglermore than average (50%)

72%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (67%)

63%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: 41% in your half of mid. Collapses: 43% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 62% 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 53% (avg 50%)Collapse 19% (avg 17%)1-v-1 28% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Kog'Maw Average

Bot laner 6% (avg 7%)Jungler 29% (avg 28%)Support 8% (avg 7%)Mid laner 50% (avg 54%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 6:00, then every minute

Kog'Maw Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 6:00. 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 jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 3.2 kills per death in their jungle against 0.2 in your half of mid. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 33 / 164

Their half of mid 1.4 K/D 80 / 57

The bot-side river 0.6 K/D 18 / 32

Their jungle 3.2 K/D 38 / 12

Your jungle 1.3 K/D 26 / 20

The top-side river 0.7 K/D 16 / 24

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 28% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 63% when Kog'Maw is there and 71% when not.

Kog'Maw

What most Kog'Maw players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 81% against 28%

More damage, more share of team 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

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 1 of them

About what you would expect

Enemies that cost Kog'Maw games: Nautilus

Teammates that change Kog'Maw's games

Dies more than 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 and 6:00, then every minute

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

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

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