Kog'Maw vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Kog'Maw
based on 409 Kog'Maw vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Kog'Maw vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some strategic Kog'Maw versus Viktor matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viktor’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Viktor..
Kog'Maw typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Viktor. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Viktor
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Viktor?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually wins when taking on Viktor, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes a good counter to Viktor.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher winrate compared to Viktor, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kog'Maw into Viktor.
Additionally, Kog'Maw has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viktor. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Viktor matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter to Viktor. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Viktor.
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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 Viktor 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Viktor. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kog'Maw versus Viktor build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Viktor than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kog'Maw had an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Viktor with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Viktor 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kog'Maw vs Viktor matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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