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Kog'Maw Build

Mid Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 6,001 gamesUpdated

50.4%win rate0.3%pick0.6%ban

Who counters Kog'Maw

Every Mid matchup for Kog'Maw, ranked →

How to build Kog'Maw

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

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

56.2% win rate 29% of games 1,085 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandAbsolute FocusScorchPrecisionCut DownPresence of Mind17% of games
SpellsFlashGhostFlash + Ghost51%
Skills
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Caustic Spittle
39101213
Bio-Arcane Barrage
24578
Void Ooze
114151718
Living Artillery
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Kog'Maw build →
50.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.0% over 16,332 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.4% over 6,001 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.8%at Emerald+
0.3%pick rate
0.6%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.4%under 22 min
53.9%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 40–45m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitM Kog'MawvsMalzahar champion portraitM Malzahar
9 / 8 / 4

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap→Wit's End

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

WQEWWRWQWQRQQEEREE
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitM Kog'MawvsViktor champion portraitM Viktor
16 / 6 / 9

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap→Void Staff

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

EQWEWRWWWQRQQQEREE
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitM Kog'MawvsVeigar champion portraitM Veigar
11 / 5 / 6

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

EWQEWRWWWQRQQQERE

Runes

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

Most popular 48.3% win rate · 17% of games · 835 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandAbsolute FocusScorch
PrecisionCut DownPresence of Mind
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 47.9% win rate · 9% of games · 459 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandAbsolute FocusGathering Storm
PrecisionPresence of MindCut Down
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost51%50.5%3,118 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport20%50.1%1,224 games

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

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes83%Swiftmarch6%Gunmetal Greaves5%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 52.0% win rate

Kog'Maw build

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

  1. Dusk and Dawn1st
  2. Shadowflame2nd
  3. Rabadon's Deathcap3rd
11% of games that reach a third item take this path57.4% win rate420 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kog'Maw →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 6,053 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
82% · 52.1% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
6% · 52.8% win rate
Gunmetal GreavesGunmetal Greaves
4% · 36.4% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 24.3% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
2% · 45.0% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
1% · 46.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes11% of games · 46.7% win rate · 666 games
  2. Dusk and Dawn+Spellslinger's Shoes6% of games · 38.8% win rate · 374 games
  3. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame›Rabadon's Deathcap+Spellslinger's Shoes6% of games · 56.1% win rate · 344 games
  4. Shadowflame›Dusk and Dawn+Spellslinger's Shoes6% of games · 44.4% win rate · 342 games
  5. Rabadon's Deathcap›Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 55.2% win rate · 241 games
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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