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Kog'Maw champion portrait

Kog'Maw Build

Jungle Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 316 gamesUpdated

52.4%win rate0.0%pick0.6%ban

Who counters Kog'Maw

No Jungle opponent has faced Kog'Maw enough times this patch to call the matchup either way yet.

How to build Kog'Maw

Sorcerer's Shoes→Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap

Sorcerer's Shoes → Dusk and Dawn → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap

52.1% win rate 32% of games 71 games
RunesSorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakAbsolute FocusGathering StormInspirationCash BackApproach Velocity16% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite96%
Skills
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Caustic Spittle
29101213
Bio-Arcane Barrage
14578
Void Ooze
314151718
Living Artillery
61116
StartScorchclaw PupScorchclaw Pup
Full Kog'Maw build →
52.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 39.9% over 790 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.4% over 316 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
0.6%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
45.4%under 22 min
60.5%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitJ Kog'MawvsUdyr champion portraitJ Udyr
0 / 7 / 1

Build

Scorchclaw PupSorcerer's Shoes|Dusk and Dawn

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

WQEWWRWQWQRQ
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitJ Kog'MawvsKindred champion portraitJ Kindred
2 / 4 / 1

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingSlightly Magical Footwear|Dusk and Dawn

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

WEQWWREWWQ
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitJ Kog'MawvsXin Zhao champion portraitJ Xin Zhao
7 / 5 / 7

Build

Scorchclaw PupSorcerer's Shoes|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame→Void Staff

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

WQEWWRWQWQRQQE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 62.1% win rate · 16% of games · 29 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakAbsolute FocusGathering Storm
InspirationCash BackApproach Velocity
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 45.5% win rate · 12% of games · 22 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakAbsolute FocusGathering Storm
InspirationCash BackApproach Velocity
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 96% of games, 53.6% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes78%Berserker's Greaves11%Boots4%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 52.4% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup60%
6 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Kog'Maw build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Shadowflame1st
  2. Dusk and Dawn2nd
  3. Rabadon's Deathcap3rd
16% of games that reach a third item take this path57.1% win rate35 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kog'Maw →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 315 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
78% · 52.4% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
10% · 45.5% win rate
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Kog'Maw against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Kog'Maw's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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