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.
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
The stats shown here show several significant Kog'Maw vs. Darius counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Darius..
Kog'Maw often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Darius. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually wins when trying to fight Darius, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Kog'Maw makes a good counter for Darius.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher winrate compared to Darius, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Darius.
Additionally, Kog'Maw also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Darius matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter to Darius. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kog'Maw against Darius.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to counter Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Darius. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kog'Maw versus Darius build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Darius than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when countering Darius with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Darius as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Kog'Maw vs Darius face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Darius as Kog'Maw are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.