Kog’Maw Champion Guide

Kog’Maw Champion Guide
Role: Marksman
Lane: Botlane
Last update: Patch 15.4.1
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Champion short description:
Kog’Maw, the Maw of the Abyss is the absolute hypercarry. The small void monster impresses with its ability to kill tough targets in seconds.
Icathian Surprise is Kog’Maw’s passive. As soon as Kog’Maw takes lethal damage, it can move for 4 more seconds. During this time, Kog’Maw cannot attack anyone, but also cannot be held or targeted. He also gains 40% additional movement speed.
At the end of the duration, he explodes, dealing 140-650 absolute damage to all nearby enemies.
Q – Corrosive Saliva passively grants Kog’Maw additional attack speed. When this ability is activated, Kog’Maw spits a projectile in the chosen direction, dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit and reducing their armor and magic resistance for 4 seconds.
Kog’Maw’s most important ability is W – Bioarkane’s Barrage. For the next 8 seconds after activating the ability, Kog’Maw’s normal attacks gain additional range and deal additional magic damage as a hit effect, capped at 100 damage against minions and monsters. The ability grants Kog’Maw 130 to 210 bonus range in addition to his base range of 500 units. Aside from Twitch’s ultimate, Kog’Maw has the second highest range in the game.
Void Silt is Kog’Maw’s E. When activated, he fires silt in the chosen direction, dealing magic damage and slowing enemies hit for a second.
R – Living Artillery allows Kog’Maw to fire a ball of acid into the air every 2/1.5/1 seconds, which lands at the chosen target location after 0.6 seconds and deals magic damage, which is increased depending on the target’s missing life. Enemies hit are revealed for 2 seconds. The damage of Living Artillery is doubled against enemies who have less than 40% of their maximum life. Each additional use of Living Artillery within 8 seconds costs 40 mana more (40 base cost), up to a maximum of 400 per use.
Kog’Maw does not buy any mana items as an AD Hypercarry, so it is advisable to limit the use of E and R and focus on Q and W in your fights.
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Description Skill Order:
Kog’Maw’s most important ability is W – Bioarkane’s Barrage. You skill it to level 1 and then prioritize the ability whenever possible.
As Kog’Maw, you are always strong when this ability is ready/active, but lose significant damage and range when it is not. Your gameplay is based on using this ability correctly and dealing as much damage as possible.
Q – Corrosive Saliva grants Kog’Maw bonus passive attack speed and is a better ability than his E for that alone.
E – Void Ooze levels up to a maximum of 1x at level 4 or keep the skill point open until level 8 or even 13 to get the maximum value out of W and Q.
Even after the buff in Season 13, the slowdown is only 30% for one second and is therefore one of the weakest abilities in the game if you play Kog’Maw as AD Carry.
As usual, skill up Kog’Maw’s R – Living Artillery whenever possible at levels 6,11 and 16.
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Description of the build path:
Kog’Maw is a classic on-hit champion, which means that one or more abilities cause increased damage during an autoattack. To get the most out of this ability, we need a lot of attack speed and additional items to boost our hit effects. Crit, on the other hand, is never really needed.
Gameplay und Laning
Laning Phase
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