Kog'Maw vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Kog'Maw
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Kog'Maw vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Kog'Maw vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some strategic Kog'Maw vs. Heimerdinger counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger..
Kog'Maw often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Heimerdinger?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually fairs equally well when playing against Heimerdinger, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes an ok counter to Heimerdinger.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher winrate than Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Heimerdinger.
Additionally, Kog'Maw has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Heimerdinger matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter for Heimerdinger. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kog'Maw versus Heimerdinger build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Heimerdinger than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Heimerdinger as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Kog'Maw vs Heimerdinger counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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