Kog'Maw vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Kog'Maw
based on 1,171 Kog'Maw vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Kog'Maw vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Kog'Maw versus Leona matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kog'Maw typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Leona
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually fairs equally well when playing against Leona, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Kog'Maw makes an ok counter for Leona.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher win rate than Leona, when facing one another, Kog'Maw also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Leona.
Moreover, Kog'Maw also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often 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 Leona matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter to Leona. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often racks up much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kog'Maw versus Leona build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Leona than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Leona 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 runes we have analyed for Kog'Maw vs Leona face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
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