Kog'Maw vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Kog'Maw
based on 501 Kog'Maw vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Alistar Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kog'Maw Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Alistar as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Alistar
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Kog'Maw vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some valuable Kog'Maw against Alistar counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kog'Maw normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Alistar
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually wins when playing against Alistar, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes a good counter for Alistar.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Kog'Maw also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Alistar.
Moreover, Kog'Maw has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Alistar matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Alistar.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kog'Maw
Additional Information for Kog'Maw Players
How We Calculated Our Kog'Maw vs Alistar Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw typically racks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kog'Maw versus Alistar build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when playing against Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Alistar as Kog'Maw, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kog'Maw vs Alistar battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Alistar as Kog'Maw are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.