Kog'Maw vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Kog'Maw
based on 417 Kog'Maw vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Kog'Maw vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Kog'Maw against Jarvan IV matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jarvan IV’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jarvan IV..
Kog'Maw usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Jarvan IV. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Jarvan IV?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually wins when taking on Jarvan IV, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Kog'Maw makes a good counter for Jarvan IV.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher winrate compared to Jarvan IV, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Jarvan IV.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Jarvan IV 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter to Jarvan IV. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Jarvan IV.
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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 Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw usually racks up much more CS as Jarvan IV. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kog'Maw versus Jarvan IV build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Jarvan IV than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 51.6% battling Jarvan IV with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Jarvan IV as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Kog'Maw vs Jarvan IV counters, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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