Kog'Maw vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Kog'Maw
based on 817 Kog'Maw vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Kog'Maw vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Kog'Maw versus Vi counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vi..
Kog'Maw usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Vi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Vi
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Vi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when playing against Vi, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes a bad counter for Vi.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower winrate compared to Vi, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kog'Maw into Vi.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a somewhat poor counter for Vi. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kog'Maw to counter Vi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw usually racks up much more CS relative to Vi. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kog'Maw versus Vi build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Vi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 48.3% when countering Vi with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Vi as Kog'Maw, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kog'Maw vs Vi face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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