Poppy with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Poppy and Kog'Maw
based on 441 Poppy with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Core Poppy Items
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Kog'Maw
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
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.
Poppy Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kog'Maw helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, she gets a noticable increase in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Kog'Maw helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kog'Maw. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, she typically receives more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Kog'Maw
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Poppy that will always be her top synergy. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a decent companion for Poppy. By playing on the same side as Poppy, he increases their win rate by 2.9% to 52.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Poppy and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Kog'Maw allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Poppy and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Poppy in order to pair well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Poppy and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with most other common item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kog'Maw with Poppy are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.