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Kog'Maw Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 2,175 gamesUpdated

49.4%win rate0.1%pick0.6%ban

Who counters Kog'Maw

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

58.2% win rate 23% of games 273 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: BloodlineLast StandResolveConditioningOvergrowth16% of games
SpellsFlashGhostFlash + Ghost56%
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 →
49.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.8% over 5,071 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.4% over 2,175 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
52.8%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
0.6%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
38.3%under 22 min
53.5%over 32 min

Kog'Maw Top gets better as the elo rises. 49.4% across Silver and above, and 52.8% at Emerald and up. It rewards players who know the matchup.

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.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitT Kog'MawvsOlaf champion portraitT Olaf
4 / 5 / 5

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

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Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitT Kog'MawvsZed champion portraitT Zed
2 / 3 / 0

Build

Boots|Dusk and Dawn

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

EWQWWREWWQRQ
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Kog'Maw champion portraitT Kog'MawvsShen champion portraitT Shen
6 / 12 / 2

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Guinsoo's Rageblade→Kraken Slayer→Runaan's Hurricane

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 50.0% win rate · 16% of games · 256 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: BloodlineLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.7% win rate · 12% of games · 199 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandAbsolute FocusGathering Storm
PrecisionPresence of MindCut Down
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost56%49.9%1,246 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash17%47.4%378 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes50%Berserker's Greaves19%Boots of Swiftness19%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 51.4% 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
10% of games that reach a third item take this path56.8% win rate125 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kog'Maw →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 2,192 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
50% · 51.5% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
19% · 50.4% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
19% · 48.2% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
4% · 46.2% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 25.7% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 39.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes11% of games · 51.1% win rate · 231 games
  2. Dusk and Dawn+Sorcerer's Shoes6% of games · 34.9% win rate · 126 games
  3. Shadowflame›Dusk and Dawn+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 49.4% win rate · 87 games
  4. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame›Rabadon's Deathcap+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 60.3% win rate · 78 games
  5. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame+Boots of Swiftness3% of games · 44.9% win rate · 69 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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